Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
2] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
3] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
4] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
5] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
6] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
7] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
8] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
9] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
10] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
11] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
12] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
13] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
14] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
15] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
16] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
17] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
18] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
19] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
20] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
21] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
22] 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.
23] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
24] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
25] 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.
26] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
27] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
28] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
29] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
30] 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.
31] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
32] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
33] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
34] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
35] 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
36] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
37] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
38] 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.
39] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
40] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
41] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
42] 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
43] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
44] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
45] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
46] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
47] 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.
48] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
49] 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.
50] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
51] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
52] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
53] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
54] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
55] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
56] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
57] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
58] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
59] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
60] 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.
61] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
62] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
63] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
64] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
65] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
66] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
67] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
68] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
69] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
70] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
71] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
72] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
73] 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.
74] 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)
75] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
76] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
77] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
78] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
79] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
80] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
81] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
82] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
83] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
84] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
85] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
86] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
87] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
88] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
89] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
90] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
91] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
92] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
93] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
94] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
95] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
96] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
97] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
98] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
99] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
100] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
101] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
102] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
103] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
104] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
105] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
106] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
107] 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.
108] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
109] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
110] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
111] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
112] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
113] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
114] 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.
115] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
116] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
117] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
118] 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.
119] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
120] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
121] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
122] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
123] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
124] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
125] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
126] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
127] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
128] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
129] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
130] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
131] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
132] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
133] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
134] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
135] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
136] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
137] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
138] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
139] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
140] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
141] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
142] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
143] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
144] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
145] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
146] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
147] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
148] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
149] 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
150] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
151] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
153] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
154] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
155] 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.
156] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
157] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
158] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
159] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
160] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
161] 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
162] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
163] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
164] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
165] 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.
166] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
167] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
168] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
169] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
170] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
171] 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.
172] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
173] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
174] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
175] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
176] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
177] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
178] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
179] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
180] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
181] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
182] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
183] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
184] 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.
185] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
186] 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)
187] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
188] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
189] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
190] 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
191] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
192] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
193] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
194] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
195] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
196] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
197] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
198] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
199] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
200] 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)
201] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
202] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
203] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
204] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
205] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
206] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
207] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
208] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
209] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
210] 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)
211] 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.
212] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
213] 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.
214] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
215] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
216] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
217] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
218] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
219] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
220] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
221] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
222] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
223] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
224] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
225] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
226] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
227] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
228] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
229] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
230] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
231] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
232] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
233] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
234] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
235] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
236] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
237] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
238] 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
239] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
240] 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
241] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
242] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
243] 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
244] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
245] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
246] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
247] 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.
248] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
249] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
250] 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).
251] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
252] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
253] 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
254] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
255] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
256] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
257] 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)
258] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
259] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
260] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
261] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
262] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
263] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
264] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
265] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
266] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
267] 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
268] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
269] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
270] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
271] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
272] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
273] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
274] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
275] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
276] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
277] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
278] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
279] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
280] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
281] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
282] 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
283] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
284] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
285] 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.
286] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
287] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
288] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
289] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
290] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
291] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
292] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
293] 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
294] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
295] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
296] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
297] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
298] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
299] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
300] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
301] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
302] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
303] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
304] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
305] 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.
306] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
307] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
308] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
309] 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
310] 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.
311] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
312] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
313] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
314] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
315] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
316] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
317] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
318] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
319] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
320] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
321] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
322] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
323] Commonsense is not so common.
324] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
325] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
326] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
328] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
329] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
330] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
331] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
332] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
333] 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
334] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
335] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
336] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
337] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
338] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
339] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
340] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
341] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
342] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
343] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
344] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
345] 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.
346] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
347] 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
348] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
349] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
350] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
351] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
352] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
353] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
354] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
355] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
357] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
358] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
359] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
360] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
361] 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
362] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
363] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
364] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
365] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
366] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
367] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
368] 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.
369] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
370] 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.
371] 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.
372] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
373] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
374] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
375] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
376] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
377] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
378] 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)
379] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
380] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
381] 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
382] 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
383] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
384] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
385] 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
386] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
387] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
388] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
389] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
390] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
391] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
392] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
393] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
394] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
395] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
396] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
397] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
398] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
399] 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.
400] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
401] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
402] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
403] 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.
404] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
405] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
406] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
407] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
408] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
409] 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.
410] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
411] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
412] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
413] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
414] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
415] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
416] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
417] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
418] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
419] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
420] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
421] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
422] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
423] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
424] 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.
425] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
426] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
427] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
428] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
429] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
430] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
431] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
432] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
433] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
434] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
435] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
436] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
437] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
438] 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)
439] 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.
440] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
441] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
442] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
443] 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
444] 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)
445] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
446] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
447] 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
448] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
449] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
450] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
451] 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)
452] 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)
453] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
454] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
455] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
456] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
457] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
458] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
459] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
460] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
461] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
462] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
463] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
464] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
465] 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)
466] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
467] 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)
468] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
469] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
470] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
471] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
472] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
473] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
474] 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
475] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
476] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
477] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
478] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
479] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
480] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
481] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
482] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
483] 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
484] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
485] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
486] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
487] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
488] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
489] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
490] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
491] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
492] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
493] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
494] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
495] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
496] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
497] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
498] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
499] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
500] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
501] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
502] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
503] 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
504] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
505] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
506] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
507] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
508] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
509] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
510] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
511] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
512] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
513] 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)
514] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
515] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
516] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
517] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
518] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
519] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
520] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
521] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
522] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
523] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
524] 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.
525] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
526] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
527] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
528] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
529] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
530] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
531] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
532] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
533] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
534] 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.
535] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
536] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
537] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
538] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
539] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
540] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
541] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
542] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
543] 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.
544] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
545] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
546] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
547] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
548] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
549] 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.
550] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
551] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
552] 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)
553] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
554] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
555] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
556] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
557] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
558] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
559] 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
560] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
561] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
562] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
563] 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.
564] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
565] 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)
566] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
567] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
568] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
569] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
570] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
571] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
572] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
573] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
574] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
575] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
576] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
577] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
578] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
579] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
580] 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.
581] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
582] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
583] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
584] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
585] 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.
586] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
587] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
588] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
589] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
590] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
591] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
592] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
593] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
594] 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
595] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
596] 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.
597] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
598] 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.
599] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
600] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.