Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

7] 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.

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

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

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

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

12] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

18] 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.

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

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

21] 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

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

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

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

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

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

27] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Aganta Christie.

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

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

30] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

40] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

45] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car Kenneth Tynan.

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

47] 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.

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

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

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

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

52] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

59] 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.

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

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

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

63] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

70] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

76] 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

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

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

79] 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)

80] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

94] 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.

95] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

101] 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

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

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

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

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

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

107] 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

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

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

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

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

112] 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.

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

114] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

123] 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)

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

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

126] 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)

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

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

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

130] 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.

131] 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.

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

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

134] 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.

135] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. James .F. Byrnes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

144] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car Kenneth Tynan.

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

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

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

148] 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

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

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

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

152] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

160] 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.

161] 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.

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

163] 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)

164] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

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

167] 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

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

169] 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)

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

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

172] 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)

173] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Brooks Adams

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

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

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

177] 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.

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

179] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid. Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)

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

181] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

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

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

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

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

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

187] 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

188] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. O.S.Marden.

189] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

196] 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)

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

198] 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

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

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

201] 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)

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

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

204] 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)

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

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

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

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

209] 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.

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

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

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

213] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

214] 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

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

216] 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.

217] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend]. Ross Macdonald

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

219] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

225] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing

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

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

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

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

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

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

232] 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

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

234] 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

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

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

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

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

239] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.

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

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

247] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. William Shakespeare.

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

249] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

266] 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)

267] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid. Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)

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

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

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

271] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose. Willian Shakespeare

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

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

274] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

291] 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.

292] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)

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

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

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

296] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Harry .S. Truman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

304] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. O.S.Marden.

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

314] 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

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

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

317] 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.

318] 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

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

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

321] 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

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

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

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

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

326] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Will and Ariel Durant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

339] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

348] Commonsense is not so common.

349] 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

350] 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.

351] 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

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

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

354] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

374] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

383] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

391] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)

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

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

394] 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).

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

396] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

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

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

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

402] 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.

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

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

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

406] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

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

412] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

430] 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.

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

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

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

434] 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 .

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

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

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

438] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

446] 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

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

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

449] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

465] 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.

466] 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)

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

468] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

471] 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

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 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

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

475] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

483] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

491] 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.

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

493] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

502] 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

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

504] 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 .

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

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

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

508] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. Aristotle(384 – 322BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

521] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. George Bernard Shaw.

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

523] 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)

524] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. William Shakespeare.

525] 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)

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

527] 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.

528] 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

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

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

531] 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

532] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

547] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened. Winston Churchill

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

549] 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.

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

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

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

553] 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.

554] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

560] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

566] 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.

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

568] 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.

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

570] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

578] 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

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

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

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

582] 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.

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

584] 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

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

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

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

588] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

595] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. Mark Twain.

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

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

598] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)

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

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