Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

10] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of Richard. M. Nixon

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

12] 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

13] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

34] 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.

35] 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.

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

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

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

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

40] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

43] 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)

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

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

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

47] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

50] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

57] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

63] 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)

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

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

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

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

68] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

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

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

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

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

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

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

75] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

84] 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

85] 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.

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

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

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

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

90] 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.

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

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

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

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

95] 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.

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

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

98] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

99] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

114] 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)

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

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

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

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

119] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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.

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

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

138] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

148] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother. Evan Esar

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

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

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

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

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

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

155] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

162] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

168] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

189] 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)

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

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

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

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

194] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

206] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

220] 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

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

222] 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

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

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

225] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

238] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

248] 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.

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

250] 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)

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

252] 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

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

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

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

256] 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.

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

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

259] 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

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

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

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

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

264] 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

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

266] 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

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

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

269] 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.

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

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

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

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

274] 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)

275] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

292] 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.

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

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

295] 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).

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

297] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

303] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

313] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

335] 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.

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

337] 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

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

339] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

345] 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

346] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

348] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

363] 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

364] 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.

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

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

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

368] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

386] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

391] 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)

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

393] 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.

394] 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)

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

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

397] 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.

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

399] 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.

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

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

402] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

415] 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.

416] 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]

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

418] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

424] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

429] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

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

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

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

434] 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.

435] 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

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

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

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

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

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

441] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

449] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

461] 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.

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

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

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

465] 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)

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

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

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

469] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

481] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

488] 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

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

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

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

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

493] 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)

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

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

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

497] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

500] 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.

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

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

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

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

505] 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.

506] 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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

519] 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

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

521] 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.

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

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

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

525] 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

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

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

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

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

530] 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)

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

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

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

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

535] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

542] 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.

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

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

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

546] 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)

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

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

549] 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

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

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

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

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

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

555] 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.

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

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

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

559] 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.

560] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

574] 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)

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

576] 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.

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

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

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

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

581] And in today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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

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

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

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

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

587] 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)

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

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

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

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

592] 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

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

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

595] 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.

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

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

598] 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

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

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