Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

6] 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)

7] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

11] 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

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

13] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body. Herbert Bayard Swope.

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

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

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

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

18] 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)

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

20] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30] 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

31] 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

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

33] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard. M. Nixon.

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

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

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

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

38] 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

39] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

54] 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

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

56] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

60] 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

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

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

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

64] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

88] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

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

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

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

92] Commonsense is not so common.

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

94] 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.

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

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

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

98] 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

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

100] 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)

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

102] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

115] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx.

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

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

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

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

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

121] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

130] 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

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

132] 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.

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

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

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

136] 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

137] 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).

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

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

140] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

146] 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)

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

148] 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

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

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

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

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

153] 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

154] 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.

155] 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

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

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

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

159] 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.

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

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

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

163] 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.

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

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

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

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

168] 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.

169] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow. William Lyon Phelps.

170] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Kovzy bski

171] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

186] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow] Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)

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

188] 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)

189] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

197] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

207] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

214] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

221] 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

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

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

224] 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

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

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

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

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

229] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

236] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)

237] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world. Richard Le Gallienne.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

248] 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

249] 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

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

251] 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

252] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

261] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body. Herbert Bayard Swope.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

274] 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)

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

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

277] 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)

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

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

280] 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.

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

282] 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.

283] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

299] 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

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

301] 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

302] 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

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

304] 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

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

306] 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.

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

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

309] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

317] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

327] 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.

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

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

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

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

332] 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.

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

334] 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.

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

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

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

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

339] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Betrand Russel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

351] 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.

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

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

354] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

360] 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)

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

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

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

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

365] 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)

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

367] 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.

368] 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

369] 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

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

371] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

383] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

400] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

406] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Willian Jennings Bryan.

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

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

409] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

422] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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

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

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

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

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

434] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

443] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

453] 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.

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

455] 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

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

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

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

459] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Willian Jennings Bryan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

469] 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

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

471] 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

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

473] 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

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

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

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

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

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

479] 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

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

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

482] 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.

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

484] 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.

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

486] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. Gertrude Stein.

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

488] 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)

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

490] 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

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

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

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

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

495] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

502] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

510] 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

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

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

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

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

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

516] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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

531] 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.

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

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

534] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

559] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

565] 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

566] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world. Richard Le Gallienne.

567] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

597] 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.

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

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

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