Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. Somerset Maugham.

9] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

29] 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

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

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

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

33] 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

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

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

36] 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.

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

38] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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.”

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

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

51] 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.

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

53] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

61] 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

62] 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)

63] 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.

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

65] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

87] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. Somerset Maugham.

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

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

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

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

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

93] 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.

94] 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.

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

96] 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.

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

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

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

100] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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

107] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

114] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone. Jesus

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

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

117] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

118] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism. Robert Shnayerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

128] 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.

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

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

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

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

133] 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)

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

135] 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

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

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

138] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness, Bertrand Russell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

146] 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

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

148] 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.

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

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

151] 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.

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

153] 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

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

155] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness, Bertrand Russell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

163] 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)

164] 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

165] 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.

166] 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.

167] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. - Martin Esslin.

168] 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)

169] 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.

170] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. Richard Aldington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

190] 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.

191] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why. Bernard. M. Baruch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] 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.

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

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

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

214] 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.

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

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

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

218] 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.

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

220] 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.

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

222] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard.

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

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

225] 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

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

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

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

229] 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.

230] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency.

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

232] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

238] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad

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

240] 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.

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

242] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

248] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

251] 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

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

253] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

256] 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.

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

258] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

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

262] 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.”

263] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie.

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

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

266] If you can’t convince them, confuse them. Harry S.Trumann

267] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

277] 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.

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

279] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr Robert. F. Kennedy.

280] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

288] 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.

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

290] And in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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

292] 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

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

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

295] 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.

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

297] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state. Julian Huxley.

298] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)

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

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

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

302] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

308] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

313] 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)

314] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Alfred North White head.

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

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

317] 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

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

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

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

321] 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.

322] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work. Doun Piatt.

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

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

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

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

327] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw.

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

329] 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.

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

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

332] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)

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

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

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

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

337] 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]

338] 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.

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

340] 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.

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

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

343] 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.

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

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

346] 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.

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

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

349] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard.

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

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

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

353] 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.

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

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

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

357] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)

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

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

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

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

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

363] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

366] 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.

367] 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)

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

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

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

371] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Bertrand Russel.

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

373] 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.

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

375] 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

376] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. Peter

377] 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

378] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).

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

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

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

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

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

384] 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.

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

386] 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

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

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

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

390] 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)

391] 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

392] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.] Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

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

397] 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.

398] 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

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

400] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged. Bertrand Russel.

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

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

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

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

405] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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

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

416] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there. Plato

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

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

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

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

421] 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

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

423] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

426] 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)

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

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

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

430] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

438] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in . Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.

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

440] 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)

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

442] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

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

444] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency.

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

446] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market. John Gardner.

447] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

453] 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.

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

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

456] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

463] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

464] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. Thomas Carlyle

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

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

467] 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

468] 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

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

470] 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

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

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

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

474] 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.

475] 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

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

477] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state. Julian Huxley.

478] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

481] 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.

482] 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

483] 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.

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

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

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

487] 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

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

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

490] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

496] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)

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

498] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

519] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

521] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. Witter Bynner

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

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

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

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

526] 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.

527] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly Joseph Wood Krutch

528] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

530] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

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

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

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

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

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

536] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

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

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

539] 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

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

541] 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.

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

543] 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

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

545] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Lord David cecil

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

547] 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.

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

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

550] 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.

551] 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.

552] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

553] And in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

563] 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 .

564] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)

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

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

567] 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)

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

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

570] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

579] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. Laurence . C. Coughlin

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

581] 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.

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

583] 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

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

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

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

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

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

589] 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)

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

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

592] 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

593] 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)

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

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

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

597] 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

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

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

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