Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
2] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
3] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
4] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
5] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
6] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
7] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
8] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
9] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
10] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
11] 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.
12] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
13] 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
14] 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.
15] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
16] 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
17] 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.
18] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
19] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
20] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
21] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
22] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
23] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
24] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
25] 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
26] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
27] 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)
28] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
29] 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.
30] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
31] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
32] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
33] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
34] 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
35] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
36] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
37] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
38] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
39] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
40] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
41] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
42] 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)
43] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
44] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
45] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
46] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
47] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
48] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
49] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
50] 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
51] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
52] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
53] 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.
54] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
55] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
56] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
57] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
58] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
59] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
60] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
61] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
62] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
63] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
64] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
65] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
66] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
67] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
68] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
69] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
70] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
71] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
72] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
73] 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.
74] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
75] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
76] 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
77] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
78] 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).
79] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
80] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
81] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
82] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
83] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
84] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
85] 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)
86] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
87] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
88] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
89] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
90] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
91] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
92] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
93] 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)
94] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
95] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
96] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
97] 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.
98] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
99] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
100] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
101] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
102] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
103] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
104] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
105] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
106] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
107] 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
108] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
109] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
110] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
111] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
112] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
113] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
114] 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.
115] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
116] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
117] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
118] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
119] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
120] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
121] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
122] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
123] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
124] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
125] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
126] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
127] 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)
128] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
129] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
130] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
131] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
132] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
134] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
135] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
136] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
137] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
138] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
139] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
140] 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.
141] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
142] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
143] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
144] 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.
145] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
146] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
147] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
148] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
149] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
150] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
151] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
152] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
153] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
154] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
155] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
156] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
157] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
158] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
159] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
160] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
161] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
162] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
163] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
164] 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.
165] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
166] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
167] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
168] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
169] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
170] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
171] 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.
172] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
173] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
174] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
175] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
176] 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
177] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
178] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
179] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
180] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
181] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
182] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
183] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
184] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
185] 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
186] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
187] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
188] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
189] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
190] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
191] 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.
192] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
193] 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
194] 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
195] 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)
196] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
197] 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.
198] 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.
199] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
200] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
201] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
202] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
203] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
204] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
205] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
206] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
207] 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
208] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
209] 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.
210] 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.
211] 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)
212] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
213] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
214] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
215] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
216] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
217] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
218] 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
219] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
220] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
221] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
222] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
223] 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.
224] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
225] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
226] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
227] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
228] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
229] 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.
230] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
231] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
232] 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)
233] 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 .
234] 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.
235] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
236] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
237] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
238] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
239] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
240] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
241] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
242] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
243] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
244] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
245] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
246] 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.
247] 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.
248] 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.
249] 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)
250] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
251] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
252] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
253] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
254] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
255] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
257] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
258] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
259] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
260] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
261] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
262] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
263] 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.
264] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
265] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
266] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
267] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
268] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
269] 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
270] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
271] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
272] 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.
273] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
274] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
275] 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
276] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
277] 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.
278] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
279] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
280] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
281] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
282] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
283] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
284] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
285] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
286] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
287] 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.
288] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
289] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
290] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
291] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
292] 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.
293] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
294] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
295] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
296] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
297] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
298] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
299] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
300] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
301] 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.
302] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
303] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
304] 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.”
305] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
306] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
307] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
308] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
309] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
310] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
311] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
312] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
313] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
314] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
315] 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
316] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
317] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
318] 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
319] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
320] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
321] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
322] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
323] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
324] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
325] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
326] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
327] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
328] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
329] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
330] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
331] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
332] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
333] 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)
334] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
335] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
336] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
337] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
338] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
339] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
340] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
341] 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
342] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
343] 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.
344] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
345] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
346] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
347] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
348] 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)
349] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
350] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
351] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
352] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
353] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
354] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
355] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
356] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
357] 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.
358] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
359] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
360] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
361] 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)
362] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
363] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
364] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
365] 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
366] 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.
367] 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
368] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
369] 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.
370] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
371] 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.
372] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
373] 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.
374] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
375] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
376] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
377] 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
378] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
379] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
380] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
381] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
382] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
383] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
384] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
385] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
386] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
387] Commonsense is not so common.
388] 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.
389] 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.
390] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
391] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
392] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
393] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
394] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
395] 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
396] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
397] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
398] 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
399] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
400] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
401] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
402] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
403] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
404] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
405] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
406] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
407] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
408] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
409] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
410] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
411] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
412] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
413] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
414] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
415] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
416] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
417] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
418] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
419] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
420] 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
421] 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.
422] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
423] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
424] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
425] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
426] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
427] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
428] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
429] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
430] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
431] 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).
432] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
433] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
434] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
435] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
436] 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.
437] 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)
438] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
439] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
440] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
441] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
442] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
443] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
444] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
445] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
446] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
447] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
448] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
449] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
450] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
451] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
452] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
453] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
454] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
455] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
456] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
457] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
458] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
459] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
460] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
461] 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
462] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
463] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
464] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
465] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
466] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
467] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
468] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
469] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
470] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
471] 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.
472] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
473] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
474] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
475] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
476] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
477] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
478] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
479] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
480] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
481] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
482] 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.
483] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
484] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
485] 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)
486] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
487] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
488] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
489] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
490] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
491] 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)
492] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
493] 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
494] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
495] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
496] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
497] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
498] 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)
499] 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
500] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
501] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
502] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
503] 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.
504] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
505] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
506] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
507] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
508] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
509] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
510] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
511] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
512] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
513] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
514] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
515] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
516] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
517] 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.
518] 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
519] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
520] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
521] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
522] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
523] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
524] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
525] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
526] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
527] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
528] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
529] 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
530] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
531] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
532] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
533] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
534] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
535] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
536] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
537] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
538] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
539] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
540] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
541] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
542] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
543] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
544] 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.
545] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
546] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
547] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
548] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
549] 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.
550] 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)
551] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
552] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
553] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
554] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
555] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
556] 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
557] 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.
558] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
559] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
560] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
561] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
562] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
563] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
564] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
565] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
566] 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.
567] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
568] 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
569] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
570] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
571] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
572] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
573] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
574] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
575] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
576] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
577] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
578] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
579] 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.
580] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
581] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
582] 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).
583] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
584] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
585] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
586] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
587] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
588] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
589] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
590] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
591] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
592] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
593] 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
594] 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
595] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
596] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
597] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
598] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
599] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
600] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.