Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life. Sigmund frued.

21] 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

22] 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

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

24] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

31] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

39] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

40] 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)

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

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

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

44] 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.

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

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

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

48] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives. William James.

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

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

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

52] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

61] 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.

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

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

64] 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)

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

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

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

68] 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)

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

70] 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.

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

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

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

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

75] 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

76] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

81] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. Voltaire

82] 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

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

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

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

86] 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)

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

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

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

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

91] 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.

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

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

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

95] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

107] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

116] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

123] 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

124] 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

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

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

127] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

132] 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.

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

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

135] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

137] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

145] 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

146] 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

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

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

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

150] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

162] 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

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

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

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

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

167] 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

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

169] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

180] 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).

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

182] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

203] 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

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

205] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

208] 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

209] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

240] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

251] 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.

252] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

269] 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.

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

271] 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.

272] 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.

273] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

282] 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

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

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

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

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

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

288] 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.

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

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

291] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

298] 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.

299] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

320] 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

321] 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)

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

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

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

325] 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

326] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old. John Ciaraci.

327] 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)

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

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

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

331] 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.

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

333] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. Thomas. R. Ybarra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

345] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

353] 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)

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

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

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

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

358] 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)

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

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

361] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it. G.K. Chesterton.

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

363] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

369] 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)

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

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

372] 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)

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

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

375] 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.

376] 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.

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

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

379] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

385] 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.

386] 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.

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

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

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

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

391] 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)

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

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

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

395] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

411] 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

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

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

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

415] 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 .

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

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] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye Alexander Pope.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

426] 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

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

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

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

430] 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)

431] 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

432] 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

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

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

435] 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

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

437] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

454] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

469] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. Havelock Ellis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

482] 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

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

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

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

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

487] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde.

488] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

503] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

510] 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

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

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

513] 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.

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

515] 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

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

517] 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.

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

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

520] 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.

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

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

523] 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)

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

525] 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.

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

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

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

529] 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)

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

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

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

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

534] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

548] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life. Sigmund frued.

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

550] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

557] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

565] 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)

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

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

568] 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.

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

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

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

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

573] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

579] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

589] 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)

590] 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

591] 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.

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

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

594] 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

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

596] 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

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

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

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

600] 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