Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

5] 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.

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

7] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] 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.”

24] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields.

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

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

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

28] 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

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

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

31] 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.

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

33] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49] 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.

50] 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.

51] 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.

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

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

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

55] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine.

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

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

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

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

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

61] 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.

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

63] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

76] 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)

77] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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.

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

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

88] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

97] 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

98] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

132] 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

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

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

135] 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.

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

137] 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.

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

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

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

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

142] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

153] 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

154] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

160] 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).

161] 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.

162] 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

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

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

165] 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

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

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

168] 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.

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

170] 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.

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

172] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

175] 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

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

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

178] 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

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

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

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

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

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

184] 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

185] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

193] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

203] 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)

204] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

216] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

227] 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)

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

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

230] 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

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

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

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

234] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

244] 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)

245] 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.

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

247] 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.

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

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

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

251] 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

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

253] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

260] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] 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.

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

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

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

274] 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.

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

276] 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)

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

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

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

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

281] 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.

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

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

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

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

286] 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

287] 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

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

289] 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.

290] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

298] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit Mark Twain.

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

300] 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)

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

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

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

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

305] 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

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

307] 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

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

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

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

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

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

313] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

333] 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.

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

335] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

338] 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.

339] 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)

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

341] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

351] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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

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

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

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

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

363] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

369] 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

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

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

372] 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.

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

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

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

376] 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

377] 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.

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

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

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

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

382] 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.

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

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

385] 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

386] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

393] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

406] 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.

407] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

421] 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.

422] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

432] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

439] 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)

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

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

442] 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.

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

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

445] 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)

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

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

448] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

454] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

464] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

471] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

482] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

493] 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.

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

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

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] 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

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

499] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Boh

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

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

502] 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

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

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

505] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

522] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

547] 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

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

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

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

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

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

553] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

560] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

568] 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.

569] 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)

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

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

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

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

574] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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

576] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

577] 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

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

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

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

581] 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

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

583] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

590] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

599] 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

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