Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

20] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52] 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)

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

54] 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.

55] 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.

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

57] 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

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

59] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).

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

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

62] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

65] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73] 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.

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

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

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

77] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

96] 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

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

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

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

100] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

107] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

126] 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

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

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

129] 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)

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

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

132] 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

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

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

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

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

137] 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

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

139] 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)

140] 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.

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

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

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

144] 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

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

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

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

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

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

150] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

157] 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

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

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

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

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

162] 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.

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

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

165] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

172] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

181] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

196] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

203] 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.

204] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras Vic Oliver.

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

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

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

208] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave Pope Pius – X1

209] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

225] 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

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

227] 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.

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

229] 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.

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

231] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

244] 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.

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

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

247] 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).

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

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

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

251] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

259] 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

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

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

262] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

275] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. John Buchan.

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

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

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

279] 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.

280] 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

281] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

292] 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)

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

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

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

296] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

306] 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

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

308] 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

309] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

318] 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)

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

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

321] 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

322] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

334] 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)

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

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

337] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

344] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

353] 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.

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

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

356] 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.

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

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

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

360] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

365] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

380] 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

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

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

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

384] 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.

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

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

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

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

389] 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.

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

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

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

393] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

406] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

417] 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)

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

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

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

421] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

422] 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

423] 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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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

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

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

432] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

443] 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.

444] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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

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

453] 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)

454] 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.

455] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

471] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

481] 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

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

483] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

490] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

496] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.] Don Robinson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

511] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

515] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

523] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

529] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

548] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one] Jdscha Heifetz

549] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

558] 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.

559] 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.

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

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

562] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

563] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

580] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

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

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

583] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

590] Commonsense is not so common.

591] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

598] 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)

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

600] 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