Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

25] 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

26] 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)

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

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

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

30] 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.

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

32] 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)

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

34] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

40] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton.

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

50] 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.

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

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

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

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

55] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

58] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

72] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

79] 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.

80] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

94] 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.

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

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

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

98] 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

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

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

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

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

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

104] 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

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

106] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

118] 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

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

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

121] 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

122] 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.

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

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

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

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

127] 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.

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

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

130] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

144] 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)

145] 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)

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

147] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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)

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

156] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

166] 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

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

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

169] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

182] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

202] 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

203] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

215] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

216] 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

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

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

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

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

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

222] 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

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

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

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

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

227] 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)

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

229] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

239] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality. Will and Ariel Durant.

240] 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

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

242] 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

243] 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

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

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

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

247] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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

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

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

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

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

268] 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)

269] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

282] 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

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

284] 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)

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

286] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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.

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

295] 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)

296] 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.

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

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

299] 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

300] 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

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

302] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality. Will and Ariel Durant.

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

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

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

306] 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.

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

308] 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)

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

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

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

312] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

324] 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.

325] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

332] 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]

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

334] 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.

335] 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.

336] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

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

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

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

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

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

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

343] 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.

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

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

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

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

348] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

357] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

363] 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

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

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

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

367] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers. Abraham Myerson

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

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

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

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

372] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

381] 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)

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

383] 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

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

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

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

387] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it. Herbert V. Prochnow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

395] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

402] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

411] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

418] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

426] 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)

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

428] 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.

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

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

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

432] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

438] 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

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

440] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

462] 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

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

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

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

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

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

468] 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)

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

470] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

479] 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.

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

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

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

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

484] 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)

485] 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.

486] 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.

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

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

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

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

491] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

505] 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.

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

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

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

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

510] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

516] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

531] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

534] 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]

535] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

548] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson

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

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

551] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

560] 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.

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

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

563] 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

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

565] 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

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

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

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

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

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

571] 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

572] 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.

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

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

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

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

577] 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

578] 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

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

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

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

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

583] 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

584] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

594] 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

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

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

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

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

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

600] 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)