Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
2] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
3] 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
4] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
5] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
6] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
7] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
8] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
9] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
10] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
11] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
12] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
13] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
14] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
15] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
16] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
17] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
18] 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)
19] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
20] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
21] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
22] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
23] 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)
24] 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)
25] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
26] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
27] 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.
28] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
29] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
30] 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
31] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
32] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
33] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
34] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
35] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
36] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
37] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
38] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
39] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
40] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
41] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
42] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
43] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
44] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
45] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
46] 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.
47] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
48] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
49] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
50] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
51] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
52] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
53] 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.
54] 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.
55] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
56] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
57] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
58] 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
59] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
60] 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.
61] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
62] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
63] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
64] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
65] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
66] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
67] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
68] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
69] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
70] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
71] 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
72] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
73] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
74] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
75] 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.
76] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
77] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
78] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
79] 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.
80] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
81] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
82] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
83] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
84] 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
85] 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.
86] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
87] 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)
88] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
89] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
90] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
91] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
92] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
93] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
94] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
95] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
96] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
97] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
98] 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.
99] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
100] 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
101] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
102] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
103] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
104] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
105] 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.
106] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
107] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
108] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
109] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
110] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
111] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
112] 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
113] 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.
114] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
115] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
116] 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
117] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
118] 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.
119] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
120] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
121] 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.
122] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
123] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
124] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
125] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
126] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
127] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
128] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
129] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
130] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
131] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
132] 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.
133] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
134] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
135] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
136] 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.
137] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
138] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
139] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
140] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
141] 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.
142] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
143] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
144] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
145] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
146] 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
147] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
148] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
149] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
150] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
151] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
152] 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
153] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
154] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
155] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
156] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
157] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
158] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
159] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
160] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
161] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
162] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
163] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
164] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
165] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
166] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
167] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
168] 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)
169] 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.
170] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
171] 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.
172] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
173] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
174] 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
175] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
176] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
177] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
178] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
179] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
180] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
181] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
182] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
183] 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.
184] 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
185] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
186] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
187] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
188] 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).
189] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
190] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
191] 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
192] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
193] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
194] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
195] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
196] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
197] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
198] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
199] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
200] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
201] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
202] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
203] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
204] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
205] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
206] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
207] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
208] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
209] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
210] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
211] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
212] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
213] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
214] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
215] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
216] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
217] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
218] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
219] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
220] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
221] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
222] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
223] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
224] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
225] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
226] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
227] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
228] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
229] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
230] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
231] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
232] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
233] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
234] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
235] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
236] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
237] 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
238] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
239] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
240] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
241] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
242] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
243] 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.
244] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
245] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
246] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
247] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
248] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
249] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
250] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
251] 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
252] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
253] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
254] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
255] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
256] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
257] Commonsense is not so common.
258] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
259] 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
260] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
261] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
262] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
263] 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
264] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
265] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
266] 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.
267] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
268] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
269] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
270] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
271] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
272] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
273] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
274] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
275] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
276] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
277] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
278] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
279] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
280] 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.”
281] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
282] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
283] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
284] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
285] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
286] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
287] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
288] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
289] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
290] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
291] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
292] 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)
293] 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.
294] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
295] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
296] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
297] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
298] 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.
299] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
300] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
301] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
302] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
303] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
304] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
305] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
306] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
307] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
308] 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
309] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
310] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
311] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
312] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
313] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
314] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
315] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
316] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
317] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
318] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
319] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
320] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
321] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
322] 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
323] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
324] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
325] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
326] 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)
327] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
328] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
329] 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.
330] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
331] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
332] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
333] 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.
334] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
335] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
336] 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.
337] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
338] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
339] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
340] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
341] 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.
342] 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.
343] 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.
344] 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).
345] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
346] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
347] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
348] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
349] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
350] 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)
351] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
352] 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
353] 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)
354] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
355] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
356] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
357] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
358] 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.
359] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
360] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
361] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
362] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
363] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
364] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
365] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
366] 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.
367] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
368] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
369] 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
370] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
371] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
372] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
373] 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.
374] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
375] 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.
376] 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.
377] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
378] 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.
379] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
380] 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
381] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
382] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
383] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
384] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
385] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
386] 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.
387] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
388] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
389] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
390] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
391] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
392] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
393] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
394] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
395] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
396] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
397] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
398] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
399] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
400] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
401] 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.
402] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
403] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
404] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
405] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
406] 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
407] 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
408] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
409] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
410] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
411] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
412] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
413] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
414] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
415] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
416] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
417] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
418] 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
419] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
420] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
421] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
422] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
423] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
424] 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.
425] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
426] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
427] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
428] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
429] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
430] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
431] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
432] 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
433] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
434] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
435] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
436] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
437] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
438] 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
439] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
440] 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
441] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
442] 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.
443] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
444] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
445] 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)
446] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
447] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
448] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
449] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
450] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
451] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
452] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
453] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
454] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
455] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
456] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
457] 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.
458] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
459] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
460] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
461] 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.
462] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
463] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
464] 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.
465] 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
466] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
467] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
468] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
469] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
470] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
471] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
472] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
473] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
474] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
475] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
476] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
477] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
478] 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.
479] 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.
480] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
481] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
482] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
483] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
484] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
485] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
486] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
487] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
488] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
489] 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.
490] 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.
491] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
492] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
493] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
494] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
495] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
496] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
497] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
498] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
499] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
500] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
501] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
502] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
503] 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.
504] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
505] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
506] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
507] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
508] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
509] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
510] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
511] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
512] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
513] 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.
514] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
515] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
516] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
517] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
518] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
519] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
520] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
521] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
522] 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
523] 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
524] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
525] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
526] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
527] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
528] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
529] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
530] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
531] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
532] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
533] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
534] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
535] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
536] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
537] 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.
538] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
539] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
540] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
541] 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
542] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
543] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
544] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
545] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
546] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
547] 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.
548] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
549] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
550] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
551] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
552] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
553] 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
554] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
555] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
556] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
557] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
558] 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
559] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
560] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
561] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
562] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
563] 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
564] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
565] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
566] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
568] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
569] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
570] 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.
571] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
572] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
573] 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
574] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
575] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
576] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
577] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
578] 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.
579] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
580] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
581] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
582] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
583] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
584] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
585] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
586] 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.
587] 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
588] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
589] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
590] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
591] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
592] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
593] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
594] 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
595] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
597] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
598] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
599] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
600] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson