Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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.

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

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

6] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before. Arthur Guiterman.

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

8] People ask for criticism but they only want praise. Somerser Maugham.

9] 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.

10] 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.

11] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

12] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21] 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

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

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

24] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

30] 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.

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

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

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

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

35] 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

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

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

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

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

40] 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

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

42] 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.

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

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

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

46] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

65] 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.

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

67] 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

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

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

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

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

72] 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.

73] 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)

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

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

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

77] 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

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

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

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

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

82] 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)

83] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

97] 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.

98] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

110] 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.

111] 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.

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

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

114] 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.

115] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers. Abraham Myerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

124] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

131] 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).

132] 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

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

134] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

140] 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.

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

142] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

144] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

152] 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.

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

154] 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

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

156] 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.

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

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

159] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

168] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

181] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

191] Commonsense is not so common.

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

193] 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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

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

200] 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)

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

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

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

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

205] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

215] 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.

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

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

218] 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

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

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

221] 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

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

223] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

235] 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)

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

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

238] 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)

239] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

245] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. P.W. Bridgman

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

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

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

249] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it. Herbert V. Prochnow.

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

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

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

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

254] 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.

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

256] 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)

257] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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.

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

265] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

275] 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)

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

277] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

289] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

299] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

316] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

340] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

351] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

362] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

364] 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)

365] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

385] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

389] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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)

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

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

400] 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.

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

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

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

404] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

413] 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

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

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

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

417] 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)

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

419] 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

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

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

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

423] 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

424] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.] J. Edgar Hoover

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

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

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

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

429] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

440] 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

441] 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

442] 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.

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

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

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

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

447] 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)

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

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

450] 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

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

452] 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

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

454] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

463] 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.”

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

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

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

471] 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

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

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

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

475] 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)

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

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

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

479] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

485] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

491] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

498] 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

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

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

501] 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

502] 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

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

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

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

506] 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.

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

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

509] 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

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

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

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

513] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

522] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

538] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

550] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

562] 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.

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

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

565] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

573] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

583] 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)

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

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

586] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

589] 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

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

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

592] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

600] 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)