Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. Laurence. J. Peter

2] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Rlph Waldo Emerson.

3] 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.

4] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past. Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)

5] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Socrates.

6] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. John Gardner.

7] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)

8] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)

9] 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.

10] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it. Cecil Palmer

11] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money. Joey Adams.

12] 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

13] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]

14] 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

15] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome. John. A. Lincoln

16] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future. Paul Emile Borduas.

17] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. Albert camus

18] 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.

19] 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

20] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

21] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. P.T. Barnum

22] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em. William Shakespeare.

23] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde.

24] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion. Albert Camus.

25] 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

26] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)

27] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Mohandan Gandhi.

28] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubtsard

29] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard shaw.

30] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. Joseph Wood Krutch.

31] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives. John Mason Brown.

32] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison.

33] 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

34] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. Platonicus ( Ist century BC)

35] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance George Bernard Shaw.

36] 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)

37] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance George Bernard Shaw.

38] The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H.L. Mencken.

39] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it. Cecil Palmer

40] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. Belgian Proverb.

41] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogres.

42] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races. Mark Twain.

43] 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.

44] The only problems money can solve are money problems.

45] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something. Paul valery.

46] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H.L. Mencken.

47] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Samuel Johnson

48] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)

49] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me ! David Lewis Stein.

50] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. George Horace Lorimer.

51] 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.

52] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Peter Mc Arther

53] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive. John Cassavetes.

54] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem Merle. L. Meacham

55] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

56] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector. Ernest Heming way.

57] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. W. I. E. Gates

58] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace.

59] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow.

60] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. H.L Mencken.

61] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde.

62] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Helen Rowland.

63] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

64] 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.

65] 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.

66] Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale.

67] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)

68] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Bishop Beilby Porteus

69] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Neils Bohr

70] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree Ezva Pound.

71] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

72] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)

73] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. Bergen Evans

74] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

75] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin.

76] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.. Arnold Toynbee

77] 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

78] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)

79] When it is dark enough you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson

80] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. Wendell Phillips.

81] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense. Enrich Fromm.

82] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. Morris. L. Ernst.

83] 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.

84] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]

85] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

86] Man is a social animal. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)

87] 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.

88] 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

89] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector. Ernest Heming way.

90] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)

91] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts. G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)

92] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.

93] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain. A.T. W. Simeons.

94] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis

95] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive. John Cassavetes.

96] Leadership is action, not position Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.

97] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you. Somerset Maugham.

98] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin.

99] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer

100] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

101] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration. Walter Goodman.

102] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes. Confucius (551 – 479 BC)

103] 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.

104] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud

105] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty. John. D. Rockefeller

106] To be like Christ is to be a Christian William Penn (1644-1718)

107] 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

108] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)

109] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others. William Allen White.

110] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain.

111] 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

112] 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.

113] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)

114] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

115] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire.

116] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough Benjansin Franklin

117] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it. J. Jenkins.

118] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert camus.

119] I Quote only the better to express myself Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)

120] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayans.

121] Birth is the beginning of death. Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)

122] Man is a political animal. Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)

123] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow.

124] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous. Alexander I Solzhewitsyn

125] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive. Robert Frost.

126] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices. William James

127] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo

128] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H.L. Mencken.

129] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)

130] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. The old Framer’s Almanac

131] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. Elbert Hubbard

132] 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

133] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth. Adolf Hitler

134] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw.

135] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870

136] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own. Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)

137] There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus (540-475 BC)

138] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. Francis Bacon

139] The only abnormality is the incapability to love Anais Nin.

140] 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.

141] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf. Feodor Dostoevski

142] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. BIBLE

143] 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)

144] 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.

145] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)

146] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.

147] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements George Bernard Shaw

148] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two. Norman Douglas.

149] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted. Helen Rowland.

150] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France.

151] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).

152] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb.

153] 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.”

154] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not. Richard.

155] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. H.L Mencken.

156] May you all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)

157] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

158] The past is but the beginning of a beginning. H.G.Wells.

159] 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

160] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North White head.

161] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

162] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability Robert Half

163] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. Laurence. J. Peter

164] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. Evan Esar.

165] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. Roy . L. Smith.

166] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

167] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann.

168] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves. Euripides (484 – 406 BC)

169] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John Gardner.

170] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own. Edger A shoaff.

171] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubtsard

172] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).

173] Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana.

174] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby. Mary Marsh.

175] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard. M. Baruch.

176] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.

177] May you all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)

178] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. Lin Yutang.

179] Every age is modem to those who are living in it Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo

180] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely. Framklin .P. Jones

181] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)

182] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. Queen Elizabeth II.

183] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)

184] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed. Emily Dickinson

185] 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.

186] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. Edgar .A. Shoaff

187] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC

188] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like. Ernest Benn.

189] 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.

190] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society. Charles Gow.

191] 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

192] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Bishop Beilby Porteus

193] 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.

194] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it. Arnold Glasow.

195] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely. Kay Lyons

196] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

197] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid. Franklin. P. Jones

198] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important. A. Edward Newton

199] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. Walter Lippmann.

200] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars. Hobart Brown.

201] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)

202] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.

203] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)

204] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. Laurence . J. Peter.

205] The past is but the beginning of a beginning. H.G.Wells.

206] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some. Burton Hillis

207] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire.

208] 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.

209] 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.

210] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great. Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)

211] Every age is modem to those who are living in it Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo

212] The brighter you are the more you have not learn. Don Herold.

213] The first requisite for immortality is death. Stanislaw.J. Lec

214] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes Winston Churchill.

215] 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)

216] 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

217] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace.

218] 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

219] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt.

220] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

221] 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

222] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

223] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughar.

224] The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).

225] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes. Howard. W. Newton.

226] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument. Arther Guiter man

227] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).

228] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler

229] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustin (354 – 430)

230] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]

231] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool. Ambrose pratt.

232] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

233] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegic.

234] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. Rabindranath Tagore.

235] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

236] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain. A.T. W. Simeons.

237] 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.

238] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. John Lindsay.

239] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.

240] 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)

241] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.

242] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education. Wilson Minzner.

243] By belief is that to have no wants is divine. Socrates.

244] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread. Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)

245] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

246] 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.

247] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

248] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)

249] Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks.

250] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …

251] 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

252] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)

253] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost.

254] 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.

255] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twin.

256] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. Peter Drucker.

257] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner

258] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

259] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery.

260] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Felix Cohem.

261] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. John Flavel

262] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. Albert Schweitzer.

263] All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)

264] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

265] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. G.K. Chesterton

266] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past. Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)

267] 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.

268] 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.

269] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice. Mark Twain

270] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

271] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. James Stephens.

272] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

273] 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.

274] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.

275] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others. William Allen White.

276] 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.

277] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

278] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there. Martin Luther king.

279] 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)

280] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)

281] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. Joseph Wood Krutch.

282] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. John Gardner.

283] The family is the nuclear of civilization. Will and Ariel Durant.

284] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old Ed How.

285] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain.

286] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchil.

287] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

288] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.

289] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. Friendrich Nietzsche

290] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)

291] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.

292] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).

293] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain.

294] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. Gandhiji

295] 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.

296] To be like Christ is to be a Christian William Penn (1644-1718)

297] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)

298] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler.

299] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. Fanny Brice

300] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard. M. Baruch.

301] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H.L. Mencken.

302] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France.

303] 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

304] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg. Samuel Butler

305] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed. Emily Dickinson

306] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next. Woodrow Wilson

307] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha

308] 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.

309] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf. Feodor Dostoevski

310] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)

311] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.

312] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Howard .W. Newton

313] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis.

314] 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

315] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buck minister Fuller

316] The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H.L. Mencken.

317] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)

318] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

319] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five. Richard M. Nixon

320] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)

321] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn. Louis A

322] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves. Euripides (484 – 406 BC)

323] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

324] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

325] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five. Richard M. Nixon

326] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. William Hazlitt

327] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis.

328] 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)

329] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

330] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)

331] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Budha

332] God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln.

333] 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.

334] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo.

335] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus (55? – 130?

336] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt.

337] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. H.L. Mencken.

338] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. William James.

339] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W. Ceram.

340] Man is a political animal. Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)

341] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins.

342] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

343] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann.

344] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. John Barrymore.

345] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. Walter Lippmann.

346] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole france.

347] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

348] By belief is that to have no wants is divine. Socrates.

349] The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).

350] 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)

351] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive. Robert Frost.

352] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw.

353] 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.

354] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln.

355] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. Albert Edward Wiggam.

356] The goal of life is death. Sigmund Freud.

357] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegnt.

358] 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.

359] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. Oscar Wilde.

360] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. Charles Towne.

361] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]

362] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Dr. O.A. Battista.

363] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity Alfred Jarry

364] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein

365] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

366] 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

367] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. William .W. Watt

368] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. Oscar Wilde.

369] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity. Dr. William Menninger

370] The brighter you are the more you have not learn. Don Herold.

371] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).

372] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. Oscar Wilde.

373] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Rlph Waldo Emerson.

374] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

375] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. Willian. E .Henley

376] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. John Milter.

377] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. R.H. Tawney

378] 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

379] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. Roy . L. Smith.

380] 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.

381] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor. Seneca (4BC – AD 65)

382] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)

383] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. Paul Sweeney.

384] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world. Robert frost.

385] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. The old Framer’s Almanac

386] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Bishop.W.C. Magee.

387] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ? Clayton Rawson

388] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s. Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)

389] 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

390] 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

391] 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)

392] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Thomas Jefferson.

393] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson.

394] 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)

395] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great. Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)

396] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Leven Stein

397] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

398] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer

399] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)

400] 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

401] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Horold Nicholson.

402] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry.

403] 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

404] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)

405] 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.

406] 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.

407] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.

408] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. George Bernard Shaw.

409] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye Alexander Pope.

410] 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

411] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt.

412] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races. Mark Twain.

413] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz.

414] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)

415] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale.

416] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. O.S. Marden.

417] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. Samuel Butter.

418] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense. Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)

419] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it. Samuel Butler.

420] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves Virginia Woolf

421] 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.

422] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. Elizabeth Arden.

423] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).

424] 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

425] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people. James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)

426] 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.

427] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert camus.

428] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.

429] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. Thomas Hobbes.

430] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves Virginia Woolf

431] 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 .

432] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Harold Nicholson.

433] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense. Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)

434] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White

435] 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)

436] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong. Earl of Mans field.

437] 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.

438] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John Gardner.

439] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. Elizabeth Arden.

440] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen.

441] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

442] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins.

443] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan.

444] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. George Team, Nathan

445] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)

446] 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.

447] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it. G.K. Chesterton.

448] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. George Horace Lorimer.

449] 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)

450] 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.

451] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain.

452] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).

453] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly. Mao Tse – tung

454] Faults are thick where love is thin James Howell.

455] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. Edgar .A. Shoaff

456] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathen

457] All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)

458] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.

459] 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.

460] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands. Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)

461] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)

462] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.

463] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. Senator Thomas . P. Gore.

464] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure. Elbert Hubbard.

465] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old Ed How.

466] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte.

467] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. Paul Sweeney.

468] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure. Henrry Greber

469] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children. Sam Levenson

470] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)

471] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. Bertrand Russel.

472] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

473] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Socrates (470? – 399 BC)

474] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything. Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

475] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)

476] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.

477] When the candles are out all women are fair Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)

478] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while. Josh Billings

479] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money. Albert camus.

480] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson

481] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith. Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)

482] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. Joey Adams.

483] 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

484] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly. Irene Peter

485] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Anatole france.

486] 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.

487] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)

488] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogres.

489] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument. Arther Guiter man

490] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward

491] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated. William James.

492] 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.

493] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt. H.L. Mencken

494] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Omerson Fosdick.

495] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

496] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)

497] 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)

498] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely. Kay Lyons

499] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Johathan Swift

500] 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.

501] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson .

502] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. Miltan Berle

503] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt.

504] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

505] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.

506] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).

507] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else. Aldous Huxley.

508] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach. George Bernard Shaw.

509] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

510] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

511] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge. Abraham Joshus Heschel.

512] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.

513] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Felic Cohen

514] 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

515] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. Edward Simmons.

516] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fizgerald.

517] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Dr. O.A. Battista.

518] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Harold Nicholson.

519] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen. Pierre Daninos.

520] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. Albert camus.

521] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb

522] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. Queen Elizabeth II.

523] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?. The Bible

524] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. O.S. Marden.

525] 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

526] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)

527] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. Rabindranath Tagore.

528] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ? Thomas Clayton wol

529] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.

530] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)

531] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future] Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)

532] 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.

533] 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

534] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buck minister Fuller

535] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. C.H. Parkhurst.

536] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education. Konrad Lorenz

537] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. Robert Zend

538] 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

539] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins Soren Kierkegaare.

540] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)

541] 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

542] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph

543] 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.

544] 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

545] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegic.

546] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal Jean Giraudoux.

547] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustin (354 – 430)

548] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over. Sandra Hochman

549] There is nothing new under the sun. – BIBLE

550] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Thomas Jefferson.

551] Birth is the beginning of death. Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)

552] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. Peter Drucker.

553] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.

554] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. Michel de (1533 – 1592)

555] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Omerson Fosdick.

556] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it. G.K. Chesterton.

557] 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.

558] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)

559] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous. Alexander I Solzhewitsyn

560] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future. Paul Emile Borduas.

561] 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.

562] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde.

563] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein

564] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins Soren Kierkegaare.

565] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

566] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. Senator Thomas . P. Gore.

567] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen

568] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one. Pope John XXIII.

569] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man. Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)

570] 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

571] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Gibbson Huneker.

572] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery.

573] 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

574] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870

575] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill. Lord Mancroft.

576] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor. Seneca (4BC – AD 65)

577] 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

578] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar wilde.

579] 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.

580] 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

581] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw.

582] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while. Josh Billings

583] 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

584] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. The communist manifesto.

585] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

586] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.

587] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. Francis Bacon

588] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars. Hobart Brown.

589] 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.

590] 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.

591] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot. George Bernard shaw.

592] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt. H.L. Mencken

593] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

594] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce.

595] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader. Tacitus (55AD 130)

596] An old error is always more popular than a new truth. German Proverb.

597] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own. Adam. L. Gordon

598] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. Miltan Berle

599] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)

600] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe