Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
2] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
3] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
4] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
5] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
6] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
7] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
8] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
9] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
10] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
11] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
12] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
13] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
14] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
15] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
16] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
17] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
18] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
19] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
20] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
21] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
22] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
23] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
24] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
25] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
26] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
27] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
28] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
29] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
30] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
31] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
32] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
33] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
34] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
35] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
36] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
37] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
38] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
39] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
40] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
41] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
43] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
44] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
45] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
46] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
47] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
48] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
49] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
50] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
51] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
52] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
53] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
54] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
55] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
56] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
57] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
58] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
59] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
60] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
61] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
62] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
63] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
64] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
65] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
66] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
67] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
68] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
69] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
70] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
71] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
72] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
73] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
74] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
75] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
76] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
77] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
78] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
79] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
80] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
81] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
82] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
83] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
84] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
85] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
86] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
87] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
88] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
89] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
90] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
91] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
92] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
93] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
94] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
95] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
96] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
97] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
98] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
99] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
100] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
101] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
102] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
103] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
104] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
105] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
106] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
107] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
108] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
109] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
111] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
112] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
113] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
114] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
115] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
116] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
117] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
118] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
119] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
120] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
121] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
122] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
123] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
124] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
125] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
126] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
127] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
128] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
129] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
130] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
131] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
132] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
133] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
134] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
135] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
136] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
137] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
138] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
139] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
140] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
141] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
142] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
143] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
144] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
145] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
146] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
147] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
148] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
149] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
150] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
151] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
152] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
153] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
154] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
155] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
156] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
157] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
158] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
159] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
160] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
161] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
162] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
163] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
164] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
165] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
166] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
167] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
168] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
169] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
170] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
171] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
172] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
173] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
174] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
175] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
176] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
177] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
178] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
179] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
180] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
181] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
182] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
183] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
184] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
185] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
186] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
187] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
188] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
189] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
190] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
191] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
192] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
193] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
194] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
195] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
196] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
197] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
198] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
199] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
200] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
201] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
202] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
203] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
204] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
205] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
206] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
207] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
208] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
209] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
210] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
211] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
212] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
213] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
214] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
215] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
216] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
217] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
218] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
219] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
220] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
221] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
222] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
223] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
224] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
225] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
226] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
227] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
228] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
229] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
230] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
231] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
232] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
233] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
234] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
235] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
236] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
237] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
238] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
239] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
240] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
241] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
242] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
243] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
244] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
245] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
246] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
247] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
248] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
249] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
250] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
251] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
252] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
253] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
254] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
255] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
256] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
257] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
258] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
259] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
260] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
261] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
262] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
263] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
264] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
265] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
266] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
267] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
268] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
269] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
270] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
271] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
272] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
273] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
274] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
275] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
276] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
277] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
278] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
279] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
280] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
281] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
282] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
283] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
284] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
285] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
286] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
287] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
288] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
289] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
290] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
291] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
292] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
293] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
294] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
295] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
296] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
297] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
298] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
299] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
300] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
301] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
302] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
303] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
304] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
305] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
306] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
307] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
308] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
309] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
310] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
311] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
312] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
313] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
314] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
315] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
316] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
317] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
318] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
319] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
320] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
321] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
322] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
323] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
324] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
325] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
326] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
327] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
328] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
329] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
330] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
331] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
332] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
333] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
334] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
335] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
336] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
337] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
338] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
339] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
340] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
341] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
342] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
343] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
344] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
345] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
346] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
347] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
348] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
349] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
350] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
351] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
352] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
353] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
354] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
355] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
356] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
357] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
358] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
359] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
360] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
361] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
362] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
363] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
364] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
365] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
366] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
367] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
368] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
369] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
370] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
371] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
372] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
373] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
374] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
375] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
376] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
377] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
378] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
379] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
380] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
381] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
382] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
383] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
384] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
385] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
386] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
387] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
388] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
389] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
390] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
391] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
392] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
393] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
394] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
395] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
396] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
397] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
398] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
399] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
400] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
401] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
402] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
403] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
404] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
405] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
406] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
407] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
408] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
409] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
410] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
411] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
412] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
413] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
414] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
415] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
416] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
417] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
418] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
419] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
420] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
421] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
422] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
423] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
424] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
425] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
426] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
427] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
428] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
429] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
430] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
431] Commonsense is not so common.
432] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
433] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
434] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
435] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
436] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
437] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
438] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
439] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
440] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
441] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
442] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
443] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
444] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
445] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
446] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
447] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
448] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
449] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
450] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
451] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
452] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
453] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
454] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
455] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
456] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
457] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
458] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
459] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
460] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
461] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
462] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
463] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
465] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
466] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
467] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
468] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
469] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
470] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
471] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
472] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
473] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
474] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
475] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
476] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
477] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
478] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
479] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
480] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
481] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
482] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
483] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
484] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
485] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
486] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
487] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
488] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
489] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
490] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
491] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
492] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
493] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
494] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
495] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
496] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
497] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
498] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
499] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
500] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
501] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
502] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
503] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
504] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
505] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
506] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
507] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
508] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
509] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
510] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
511] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
512] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
513] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
514] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
515] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
516] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
517] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
518] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
519] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
520] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
521] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
522] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
523] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
524] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
525] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
526] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
527] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
528] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
529] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
530] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
531] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
532] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
533] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
534] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
535] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
536] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
537] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
538] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
539] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
540] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
541] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
542] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
543] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
544] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
545] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
546] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
547] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
548] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
549] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
550] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
551] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
552] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
553] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
554] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
555] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
556] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
557] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
558] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
559] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
560] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
561] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
562] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
563] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
564] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
565] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
566] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
567] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
568] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
569] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
570] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
571] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
572] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
573] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
574] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
575] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
576] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
577] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
578] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
579] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
580] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
581] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
582] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
583] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
584] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
585] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
586] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
587] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
588] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
589] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
590] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
591] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
592] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
593] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
594] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
595] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
596] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
597] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
598] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
599] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
600] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus