Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
2] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
3] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
4] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
5] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
6] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
7] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
8] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
9] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
10] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
11] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
12] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
13] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
14] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
15] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
16] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
17] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
18] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
19] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
20] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
21] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
22] 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)
23] 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
24] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
25] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
26] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
27] 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.
28] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
29] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
30] 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.
31] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
32] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
33] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
34] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
35] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
36] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
37] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
38] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
39] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
40] 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
41] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
42] 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.
43] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
44] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
45] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
46] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
47] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
48] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
49] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
50] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
51] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
52] 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
53] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
54] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
55] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
56] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
57] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
58] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
59] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
60] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
61] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
62] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
63] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
64] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
65] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
66] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
67] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
68] 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
69] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
70] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
71] 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 .
72] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
73] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
74] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
75] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
76] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
77] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
78] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
79] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
80] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
81] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
82] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
83] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
84] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
85] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
86] 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).
87] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
88] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
89] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
90] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
91] 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
92] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
93] 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.
94] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
95] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
96] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
97] 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.
98] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
99] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
100] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
101] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
102] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
103] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
104] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
105] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
106] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
107] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
108] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
109] 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.
110] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
111] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
112] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
113] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
114] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
115] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
116] 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.
117] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
118] 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
119] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
120] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
121] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
122] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
123] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
124] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
125] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
126] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
127] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
128] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
129] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
130] 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)
131] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
132] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
133] 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
134] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
135] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
136] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
137] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
138] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
139] 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
140] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
141] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
142] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
143] 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)
144] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
145] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
146] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
147] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
148] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
149] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
150] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
151] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
152] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
153] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
154] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
155] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
156] 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
157] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
158] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
159] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
160] 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
161] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
162] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
163] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
164] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
165] 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.
166] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
167] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
168] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
169] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
170] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
171] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
172] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
173] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
174] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
175] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
176] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
177] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
178] 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.
179] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
180] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
181] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
182] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
183] 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
184] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
185] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
186] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
187] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
188] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
189] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
190] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
191] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
192] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
193] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
194] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
195] 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.
196] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
197] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
198] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
199] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
200] 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).
201] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
202] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
203] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
204] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
205] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
206] 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.
207] 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
208] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
209] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
210] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
211] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
212] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
213] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
214] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
215] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
216] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
217] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
218] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
219] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
220] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
221] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
222] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
223] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
224] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
225] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
226] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
227] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
228] 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.
229] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
230] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
231] 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).
232] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
233] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
234] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
235] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
236] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
237] 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)
238] 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
239] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
240] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
241] 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
242] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
243] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
244] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
245] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
246] 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.
247] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
248] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
249] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
250] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
251] 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
252] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
253] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
254] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
255] 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
256] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
257] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
258] 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
259] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
260] 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
261] 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
262] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
263] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
264] 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
265] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
266] 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
267] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
268] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
269] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
270] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
271] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
272] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
273] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
274] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
275] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
276] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
277] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
278] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
279] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
280] 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
281] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
282] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
283] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
284] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
285] 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
286] 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
287] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
288] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
289] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
290] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
291] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
292] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
293] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
294] 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.
295] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
296] 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.
297] 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.
298] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
299] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
300] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
301] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
302] 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.
303] 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.
304] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
305] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
306] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
307] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
308] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
309] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
310] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
311] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
312] 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
313] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
314] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
315] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
316] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
317] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
318] 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.
319] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
320] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
321] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
322] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
323] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
324] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
325] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
326] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
327] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
328] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
329] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
330] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
331] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
332] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
333] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
334] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
335] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
336] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
337] 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
338] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
339] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
340] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
341] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
342] 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
343] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
344] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
345] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
346] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
347] 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.
348] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
349] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
350] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
351] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
352] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
353] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
354] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
355] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
356] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
357] 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.
358] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
359] 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.
360] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
361] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
362] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
363] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
364] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
365] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
366] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
367] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
368] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
369] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
370] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
371] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
372] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
373] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
374] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
375] 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.
376] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
377] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
378] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
379] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
380] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
381] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
382] 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
383] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
384] 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
385] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
386] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
387] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
388] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
389] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
390] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
391] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
392] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
393] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
394] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
395] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
396] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
397] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
398] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
399] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
400] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
401] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
402] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
403] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
404] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
405] 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.
406] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
407] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
408] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
409] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
410] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
411] 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)
412] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
413] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
414] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
415] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
416] 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 .
417] 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.
418] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
419] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
420] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
421] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
422] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
423] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
424] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
425] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
426] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
427] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
428] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
429] 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
430] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
431] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
432] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
433] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
434] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
435] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
436] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
437] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
438] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
439] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
440] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
441] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
442] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
443] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
444] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
445] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
446] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
447] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
448] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
449] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
450] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
451] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
452] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
453] 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.
454] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
455] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
456] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
457] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
458] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
459] 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
460] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
461] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
462] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
463] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
464] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
465] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
466] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
467] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
468] 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.
469] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
470] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
471] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
472] 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)
473] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
474] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
475] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
476] 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.
477] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
478] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
479] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
480] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
481] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
482] 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
483] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
484] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
485] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
487] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
488] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
489] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
490] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
491] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
492] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
493] 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
494] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
495] 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.
496] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
497] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
498] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
499] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
500] 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
501] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
502] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
503] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
504] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
505] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
506] 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)
507] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
508] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
509] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
510] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
511] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
512] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
513] 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)
514] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
515] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
516] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
517] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
518] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
519] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
520] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
521] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
522] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
523] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
524] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
525] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
526] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
527] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
528] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
529] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
530] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
531] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
532] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
533] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
534] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
535] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
536] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
537] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
538] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
539] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
540] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
541] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
542] 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.
543] 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
544] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
545] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
546] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
547] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
548] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
549] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
550] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
551] 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).
552] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
553] 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.
554] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
555] 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
556] 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
557] 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.
558] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
559] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
560] 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.
561] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
562] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
563] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
564] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
565] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
566] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
567] 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
568] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
569] 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
570] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
571] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
572] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
573] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
574] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
575] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
576] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
577] 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)
578] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
579] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
580] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
581] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
582] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
583] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
584] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
585] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
586] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
587] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
588] 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)
589] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
590] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
591] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
592] 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
593] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
594] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
595] 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
596] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
597] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
598] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
599] 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
600] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons