Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] 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)

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

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

26] 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.

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

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

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

30] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42] 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.

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

44] 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)

45] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

53] 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

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

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

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

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

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

59] 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

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

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

62] 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

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

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

65] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

96] 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

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

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

99] 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.

100] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

107] 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.

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

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

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

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

112] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

113] 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

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

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

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

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

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

119] 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)

120] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

128] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

136] 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)

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

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

139] 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)

140] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

167] 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.

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

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

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

171] 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

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

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

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

175] 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.

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

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

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

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

180] 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

181] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

191] 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.

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

193] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

198] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

208] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power. Seneca

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

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

211] 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)

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

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

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

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

216] 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

217] 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)

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

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

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

221] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

234] 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.

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

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

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

238] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

239] 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)

240] 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.

241] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

250] 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.

251] 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.

252] 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)

253] 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

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

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

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

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

258] 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)

259] 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

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

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

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

263] 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.

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

265] 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

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

267] 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.

268] 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

269] 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.

270] 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

271] 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

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

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

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

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

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

277] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).

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

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

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

281] 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.

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

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

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

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

286] 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.

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

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

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

290] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power. Seneca

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

292] 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

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

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

295] 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.

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

297] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off Jenkin Lloynd Jones.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

313] 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

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

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

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

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

318] 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)

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

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

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

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

323] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

345] 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

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

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

348] 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.

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

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

351] 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.

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

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

354] 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)

355] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

375] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want. L.S.Mc Candless

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

377] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

384] 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

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

386] 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.

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

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

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

390] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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

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

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

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

401] 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)

402] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

405] 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

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

407] 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

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

409] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

410] 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.

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

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

413] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

425] 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.

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

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

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

429] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

438] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

445] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

458] 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

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

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

461] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

475] 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.

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

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

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

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

480] 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

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

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

483] 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

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

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

486] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

495] 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

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

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

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

499] 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.

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

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

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

503] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

506] 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

507] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

513] 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)

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

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

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

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

518] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

525] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

533] 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

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

535] 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)

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

537] 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

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

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

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

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

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

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

570] 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

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

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

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

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

575] 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 .

576] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

588] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. Fanny Brice

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

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

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

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

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

594] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

596] 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.

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

598] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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