Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
3] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
4] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
5] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
6] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
7] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
8] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
9] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
10] 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
11] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
12] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
13] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
14] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
15] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
16] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
17] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
18] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
19] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
20] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
21] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
22] 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
23] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
24] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
25] 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
26] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
27] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
28] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
29] 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)
30] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
31] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
32] 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 .
33] 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
34] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
35] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
36] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
37] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
38] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
39] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
40] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
41] 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
42] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
43] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
44] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
45] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
46] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
47] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
49] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
50] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
51] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
52] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
53] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
54] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
55] 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.
56] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
57] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
58] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
59] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
60] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
61] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
62] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
63] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
65] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
66] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
67] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
68] 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
69] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
70] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
71] 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.
72] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
73] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
74] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
75] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
76] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
77] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
78] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
79] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
80] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
81] 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
82] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
83] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
84] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
85] 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.
86] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
87] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
88] 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)
89] 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
90] 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
91] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
92] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
93] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
94] 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
95] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
96] 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.
97] 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
98] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
99] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
100] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
101] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
102] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
103] 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
104] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
105] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
106] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
107] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
108] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
109] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
110] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
111] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
112] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
113] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
114] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
115] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] 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.
117] 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.
118] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
119] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
120] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
121] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
122] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
123] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
124] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
125] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
126] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
127] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
128] 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
129] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
130] 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
131] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
132] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
133] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
134] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
135] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
136] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
137] 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.
138] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
139] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
140] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
141] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
142] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
143] 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)
144] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
145] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
146] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
147] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
148] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
149] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
150] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
151] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
152] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
153] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
154] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
155] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
156] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
157] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
158] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
159] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
160] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
161] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
162] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
163] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
164] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
165] 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)
166] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
167] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
168] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
169] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
170] 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.
171] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
172] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
173] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
174] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
175] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
176] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
177] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
178] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
179] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
180] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
181] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
182] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
183] 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)
184] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
185] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
186] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
187] 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
188] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
189] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
190] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
191] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
192] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
193] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
194] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
195] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
196] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
197] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
198] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
199] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
200] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
201] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
202] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
203] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
204] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
205] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
206] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
207] 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)
208] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
209] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
210] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
211] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
212] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
213] 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)
214] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
215] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
216] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
217] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
218] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
219] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
220] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
221] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
222] 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 .
223] 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
224] 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)
225] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
226] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
227] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
228] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
229] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
230] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
231] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
232] 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.
233] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
234] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
235] 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
236] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
237] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
238] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
239] 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
240] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
241] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
242] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
243] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
244] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
245] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
246] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
247] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
248] 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
249] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
250] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
251] 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
252] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
253] 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)
254] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
255] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
256] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
257] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
258] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
259] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
260] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
261] 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.
262] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
263] 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
264] 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.
265] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
266] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
267] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
268] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
269] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
270] 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
271] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
272] 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
273] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
274] 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
275] 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.
276] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
277] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
278] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
279] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
280] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
281] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
282] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
283] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
284] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
285] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
286] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
287] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
288] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
289] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
290] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
291] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
292] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
293] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
294] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
295] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
296] 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.
297] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
298] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
299] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
300] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
301] 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.
302] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
303] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
304] 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)
305] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
306] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
307] 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.
308] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
309] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
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] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
312] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
313] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
314] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
315] 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
316] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
317] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
318] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
319] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
320] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
321] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
322] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
323] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
324] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
325] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
326] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
327] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
328] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
329] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
330] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
331] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
332] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
334] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
335] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
336] 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)
337] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
338] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
339] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
340] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
341] 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.
342] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
343] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
344] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
345] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
346] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
347] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
348] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
349] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
350] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
351] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
352] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
353] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
354] 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.
355] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
356] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
357] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
358] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
359] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
360] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
361] 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.
362] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
363] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
364] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
365] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
366] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
367] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
368] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
369] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
370] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
371] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
372] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
373] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
374] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
375] 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.
376] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
377] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
378] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
379] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
380] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
381] 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
382] 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
383] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
384] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
385] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
386] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
387] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
388] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
389] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
390] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
391] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
392] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
393] 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
394] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
395] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
396] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
397] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
398] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
399] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
400] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
401] 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.
402] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
403] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
404] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
405] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
406] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
407] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
408] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
409] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
410] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
411] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
412] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
413] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
414] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
415] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
416] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
417] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
418] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
419] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
420] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
421] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
422] 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
423] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
424] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
425] 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
426] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
427] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
428] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
429] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
430] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
431] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
432] 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
433] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
434] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
435] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
436] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
437] 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.
438] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
439] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
440] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
441] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
442] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
443] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
444] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
445] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
446] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
447] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
448] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
449] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
450] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
451] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
452] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
453] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
454] 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)
455] 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
456] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
457] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
458] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
459] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
460] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
461] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
462] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
463] 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
464] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
465] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
466] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
467] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
468] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
469] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
470] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
471] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
472] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
473] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
474] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
475] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
476] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
477] 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)
478] 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
479] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
480] 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.
481] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
482] 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
483] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
484] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
485] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
486] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
487] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
488] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
489] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
490] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
491] 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.
492] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
493] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
494] 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
495] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
496] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
497] 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.
498] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
499] 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.
500] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
501] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
502] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
503] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
504] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
505] 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.
506] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
507] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
508] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
509] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
510] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
511] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
512] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
513] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
514] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
515] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
516] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
517] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
518] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
519] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
520] 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)
521] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
522] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
523] 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.
524] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
525] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
526] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
527] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
528] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
529] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
530] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
531] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
532] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
533] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
534] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
535] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
536] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
537] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
538] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
539] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
540] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
541] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
542] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
543] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
544] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
545] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
546] 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.
547] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
548] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
549] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
550] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
551] 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.
552] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
553] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
554] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
555] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
556] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
557] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
558] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
559] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
560] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
561] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
562] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
563] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
564] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
565] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
566] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
567] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
568] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
569] 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
570] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
571] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
572] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
573] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
574] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
575] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
576] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
577] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
578] 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.
579] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
580] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
581] 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.
582] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
583] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
584] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
585] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
586] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
587] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
588] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
589] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
590] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
591] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
592] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
593] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
594] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
595] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
596] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
597] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
598] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
599] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
600] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)