Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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
2] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
3] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
4] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
5] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
6] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
7] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
8] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
9] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
10] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
11] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
12] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
13] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
14] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
15] 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.
16] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
17] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
18] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
19] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
20] 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.
21] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
22] 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)
23] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
24] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
25] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
26] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
27] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
28] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
29] 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.
30] 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.
31] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
32] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
33] 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
34] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
35] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
36] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
37] 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
38] 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
39] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
40] 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
41] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
42] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
43] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
44] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
45] 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.
46] 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.
47] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
48] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
49] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
50] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
51] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
52] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
53] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
54] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
55] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
56] 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.
57] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
58] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
59] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
60] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
61] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
62] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
63] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
64] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
65] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
66] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
67] 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)
68] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
69] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
70] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
71] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
72] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
73] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
74] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
75] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
76] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
77] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
78] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
79] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
80] 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.
81] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
82] 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.
83] 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.
84] 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 .
85] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
86] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
87] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
88] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
89] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
90] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
91] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
92] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
93] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
94] 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
95] 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.
96] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
97] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
98] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
99] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
100] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
101] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
102] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
103] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
104] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
105] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
106] 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)
107] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
108] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
109] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
110] 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.
111] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
112] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
113] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
114] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
115] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
116] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
117] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
118] 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.
119] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
120] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
121] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
122] 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.
123] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
124] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
125] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
126] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
127] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
128] 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.
129] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
130] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
131] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
132] 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
133] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
134] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
135] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
136] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
137] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
138] 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
139] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
140] 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).
141] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
142] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
143] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
144] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
145] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
146] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
147] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
148] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
149] 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.
150] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
151] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
152] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
153] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
154] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
155] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
156] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
157] 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.
158] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
159] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
160] 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
161] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
162] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
163] 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.
164] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
165] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
166] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
167] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
168] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
169] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
170] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
171] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
172] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
173] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
174] 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).
175] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
176] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
177] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
178] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
179] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
180] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
181] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
182] 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
183] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
184] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
185] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
186] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
187] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
188] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
189] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
190] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
191] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
192] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
193] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
194] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
195] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
196] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
197] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
198] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
199] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
200] 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
201] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
202] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
203] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
204] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
205] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
206] 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
207] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
208] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
209] 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
210] 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
211] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
212] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
213] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
214] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
215] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
216] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
217] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
218] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
219] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
220] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
221] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
222] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
223] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
224] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
225] 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.
226] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
227] 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
228] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
229] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
230] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
231] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
232] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
233] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
234] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
235] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
236] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
237] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
238] 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
239] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
240] 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
241] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
242] 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
243] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
244] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
245] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
246] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
247] 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
248] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
249] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
250] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
251] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
252] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
253] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
254] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
255] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
256] 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
257] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
258] 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.
259] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
260] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
261] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
262] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
263] 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)
264] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
265] 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.
266] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
267] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
268] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
269] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
270] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
271] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
272] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
273] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
274] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
275] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
276] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
277] 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)
278] 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
279] 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.
280] 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
281] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
282] 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
283] 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
284] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
285] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
286] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
287] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
288] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
289] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
290] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
291] 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.
292] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
293] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
294] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
295] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
296] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
297] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
298] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
299] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
300] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
301] 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)
302] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
303] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
304] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
305] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
306] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
307] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
308] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
309] 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
310] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
311] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
312] 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
313] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
314] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
315] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
316] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
317] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
318] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
319] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
320] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
321] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
322] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
323] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
324] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
325] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
326] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
327] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
328] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
329] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
330] 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.
331] 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.
332] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
333] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
334] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
335] 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.
336] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
337] 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
338] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
339] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
340] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
341] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
342] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
343] 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
344] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
345] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
346] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
347] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
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] 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)
350] 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.
351] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
352] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
353] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
354] 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.
355] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
356] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
357] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
358] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
359] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
360] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
361] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
362] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
363] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
364] 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
365] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
366] 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.
367] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
368] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
369] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
370] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
371] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
372] 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
373] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
374] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
375] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
376] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
377] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
378] 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.
379] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
380] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
381] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
382] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
383] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
384] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
385] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
386] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
387] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
388] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
389] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
390] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
391] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
392] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
393] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
394] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
395] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
396] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
397] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
398] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
399] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
400] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
401] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
402] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
403] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
404] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
405] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
406] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
407] 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)
408] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
409] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
410] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
411] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
412] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
413] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
414] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
415] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
416] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
417] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
418] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
419] 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)
420] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
421] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
422] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
423] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
424] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
425] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
426] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
427] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
428] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
429] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
430] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
431] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
432] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
433] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
434] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
435] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
436] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
437] 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.
438] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
439] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
440] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
441] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
442] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
443] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
444] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
445] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
446] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
447] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
448] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
449] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
450] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
451] 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.
452] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
453] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
454] 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
455] 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
456] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
457] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
458] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
459] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
460] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
461] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
462] 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.
463] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
464] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
465] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
466] 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.
467] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
468] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
469] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
470] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
471] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
472] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
473] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
474] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
475] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
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] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
478] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
479] 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
480] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
481] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
482] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
483] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
484] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
485] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
486] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
487] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
488] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
489] 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
490] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
491] 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
492] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
493] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
494] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
495] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
496] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
497] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
498] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
499] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
500] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
501] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
502] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
503] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
504] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
505] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
506] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
507] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
508] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
509] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
510] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
511] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
512] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
513] 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
514] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
515] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
516] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
517] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
518] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
519] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
520] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
521] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
522] 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.
523] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
524] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
525] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
526] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
527] 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
528] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
529] 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.
530] 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.
531] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
532] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
533] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
534] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
535] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
536] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
537] 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
538] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
539] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
540] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
541] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
542] 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
543] 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.
544] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
545] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
546] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
547] 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.
548] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
549] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
550] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
551] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
552] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
553] 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.
554] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
555] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
556] 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.
557] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
558] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
559] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
560] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
561] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
562] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
563] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
564] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
565] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
566] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
567] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
568] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
569] 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.
570] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
571] 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).
572] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
573] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
574] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
575] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
576] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
577] 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)
578] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
579] 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
580] 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)
581] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
582] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
583] 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
584] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
585] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
586] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
587] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
588] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
589] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
590] 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)
591] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
592] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
593] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
594] 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)
595] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
596] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
597] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
598] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
599] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
600] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.