Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.

2] 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).

3] 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

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

5] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature. Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)

6] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer.

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

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

9] 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

10] 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

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

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

13] 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.

14] Self trust is the essence of heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

16] 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.

17] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. Wilson Mizner

18] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another. John Burroughs.

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

20] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

22] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory I

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

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

25] The measure of man is what he does with power. Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)

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

27] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38] 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

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

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

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

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

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

44] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. Eric Hoffer.

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

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

47] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love. Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)

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

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

50] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice. Ed Have.

51] 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)

52] 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.

53] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel Le Unamuno.

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

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

56] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature. Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)

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

58] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word. Adolf Hitler.

59] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory I

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

61] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.

62] 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

63] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive. Theodore Roosevelt.

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

65] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803

66] 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.

67] 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

68] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. Voltaire.

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

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

71] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking. Martin .H. Fisher

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

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

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

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

76] 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.

77] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

78] 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.

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

80] 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.

81] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)

82] 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

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

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

85] 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)

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

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

88] 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)

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

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

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

92] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you. Elmer Davis

93] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society. John Gardner

94] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. - Mignon Mc. Laughin.

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

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

97] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)

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

99] 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

100] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.

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

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

103] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

104] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm.

105] 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.

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

107] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. Norman Vincent Peale.

108] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.

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

110] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie

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

112] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.

113] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.

114] Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland

115] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes. Herrick Johnson.

116] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. Seneca (4BC – AD 65).

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

118] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. Wilson Mizner.

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

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

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

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

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

124] A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles. F. Kettering.

125] 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.

126] 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

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

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

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

130] 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

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

132] 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

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

134] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

136] 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 .

137] 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.

138] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law. Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)

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

140] 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.

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

142] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it . Seneca

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

144] 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

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

146] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.] Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]

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

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

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

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

151] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own. H. G. Bohn.

152] Man – a being in search of meaning. Plato (427 ? 347?BC)

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

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

155] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love. Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)

156] 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.

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

158] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !” Oren Arnold.

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

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

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

162] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. Christopher Morley.

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

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

165] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)

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

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

168] 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

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

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

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] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.

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

174] 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)

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

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

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

178] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)

179] Marriage is a mistake every man should make. George Jessel.

180] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own. Thomas Mann.

181] 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

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

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

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

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

186] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.

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

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

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

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

191] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory Alfred North White head.

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

193] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us. Sigmund frud.

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

195] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. - Mignon Mc. Laughin.

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

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

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

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

200] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. William James.

201] 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)

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

203] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Nicholas chamfort.

204] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)

205] 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.

206] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it. William. A. Orton.

207] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

211] 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.

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

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

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

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

216] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John . F. Kennedy.

217] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own. Sir Herbert Samuel

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

219] 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.

220] 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.

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

222] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn David Russel.

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

224] 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.

225] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Ambrose kitman.

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

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

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

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

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

231] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain.

232] 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

233] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide.

234] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horace (65 – 8 BC)

235] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do. Milton Mayor.

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

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

238] 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)

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

240] 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)

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

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

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

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

245] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. Brigitte Bardot

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

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

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

249] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)

250] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time. H.A. Overstreet.

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

252] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can. Moms Mabley.

253] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)

254] 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.

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

256] 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

257] 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.

258] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie

259] 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.

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

261] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

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

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

264] 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).

265] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle (384 – 322BC)

266] 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.

267] 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.

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

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

270] 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

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

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

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

274] 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

275] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. Ed Howe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

282] 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.

283] 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

284] 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.

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

286] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience. Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

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

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

289] 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.

290] The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire (1694 -1778)

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

292] Hell is not to love any more. Georges Bernanos.

293] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Walso Emerson

294] 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

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

296] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emersom Fosdick.

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

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

299] The only things we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Rosevelt.

300] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. Norman Vincent Peale.

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

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

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

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

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

306] 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

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

308] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein.

309] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel Le Unamuno.

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

311] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)

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

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

314] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)

315] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word. Adolf Hitler.

316] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

318] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement. Roy. L. Smith.

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

320] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle (384 – 322BC)

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

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

323] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill.

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

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

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

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

328] You can observe a lot just by watching Yogi Berra

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

330] 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.

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

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

333] 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

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

335] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right. Bernard .M. Baruch

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

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

338] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Oscar Wilde.

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

340] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. e. e. Cummings.

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

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

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

344] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein.

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

346] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them. Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)

347] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

353] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Oscar Wilde.

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

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

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

357] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you. Elmer Davis

358] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive. Theodore Roosevelt.

359] The measure of man is what he does with power. Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)

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

361] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60". Nicholas Murray Butler

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

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

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

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

366] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech. George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

375] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.

376] 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.

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

378] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. Paul Eldridge.

379] May be this world is another planet’s Hell Aldous Huxley.

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

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

382] 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

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

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

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

386] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge. Ernest Hemingway

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

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

389] 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

390] 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.

391] A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Channing Pollock

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

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

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

395] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson

396] May be this world is another planet’s Hell Aldous Huxley.

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

398] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)

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

400] 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

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

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

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

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

405] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility. John Ruskin

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

407] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered. Dr.William Russel.

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

409] 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.

410] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill.

411] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law. Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)

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

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

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

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

416] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own. Sir Herbert Samuel

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

418] 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

419] 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.

420] The basis of optimism is sheer terror. Oscar Wilde.

421] 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.

422] 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

423] 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

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

425] 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

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

427] 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

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

429] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?. Jules Feiffer.

430] 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.

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

432] 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)

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

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

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

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

437] 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.

438] 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.

439] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60". Nicholas Murray Butler

440] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. Wilson Mizner.

441] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Charles.F. Kettering.

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

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

444] 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

445] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.

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

447] 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)

448] 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

449] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes. Herrick Johnson.

450] 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.

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

452] 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).

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

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

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

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

457] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)

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

459] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing. George Barnard Shaw.

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

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

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

463] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)

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

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

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

467] 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)

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

469] 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

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

471] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson

472] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security. A.P. Gouthey

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

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

475] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege. Mark Twain.

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

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

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

479] 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

480] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Walso Emerson

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

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

483] 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.

484] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost.

485] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

492] 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

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

494] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of William Haz litt (1778 -1830).

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. Voltaire.

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

503] 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.

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

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

506] 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.

507] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John . F. Kennedy.

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

509] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan

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

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

512] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people Simeon Strunsky

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

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

515] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams

516] The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire (1694 -1778)

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

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

519] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. Robert Frost.

520] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness. George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

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

524] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli

525] 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.

526] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John . F. Kennedy

527] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

528] 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.

529] The secret of education is respecting pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

531] 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

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

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

534] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence. Vermont proverb

535] 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)

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

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

538] 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.

539] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience. Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

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

541] 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.

542] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw.

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

544] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Antole France

545] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

546] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true. Polish Proverb.

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

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

549] 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

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

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

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

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

554] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. Charles Haddam Spurgeon.

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

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

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

558] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time. H.A . Overstreet.

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

560] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself Earnest Jones.

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

562] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized] Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)

563] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it. Calvin Coolidge

564] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

570] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.] Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]

571] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)

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

573] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm.

574] 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)

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

576] 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.

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

578] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

579] To know all things is not permitted Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)

580] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. Eric Hoffer.

581] Self trust is the essence of heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

582] The secret of education is respecting pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson

583] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else. Francis Rodman.

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

585] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn David Russel.

586] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana

587] 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.

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

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

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

591] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winstan Churchill.

592] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. Sir Herbert Samuel

593] 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.

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

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

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

597] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.

598] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emersom Fosdick.

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

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