Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

2] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

26] 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.

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

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

29] 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)

30] 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

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

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

33] Man – a being in search of meaning. Plato (427 ? 347?BC)

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

35] 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

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

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

38] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. O.S.Marden.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts. John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).

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

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

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

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

52] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

67] 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.

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

69] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort William James.

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

71] 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.

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

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

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

75] 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.

76] 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

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

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

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

80] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

88] 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.

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

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

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

92] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

113] 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

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

115] 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)

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

117] 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.

118] 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

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

120] 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.

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

122] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. George Bernard Shaw.

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

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

125] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

130] 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

131] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

140] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism. Preserved Smith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

147] 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

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

149] 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)

150] 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.

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

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

153] 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.

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

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

156] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there. Martin Luther king.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

169] 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.

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

171] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

174] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

190] 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

191] 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.

192] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

209] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have Stewart Harrol

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

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

212] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

220] 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.

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

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

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

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

225] 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.

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

227] 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

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

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

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

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

232] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

247] 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)

248] 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)

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

250] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly. Mao Tse – tung

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

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

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

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

255] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North White head.

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

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

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

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

260] 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.

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

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

263] 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.

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

265] 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

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

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

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

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

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

271] 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.

272] 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

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

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

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

276] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

285] 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.

286] 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)

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

288] 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)

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

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

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

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

293] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

301] 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

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

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

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

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

306] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

318] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

337] 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.

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

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

340] 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

341] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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.

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

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

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

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

363] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

370] 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)

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

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

373] 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.

374] 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

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

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

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

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

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

380] 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)

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

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

383] 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.

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

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

386] 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.

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

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

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

390] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

406] 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)

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

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

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

410] 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

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

412] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

427] 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.”

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

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

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

431] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

449] 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

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

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

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

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

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

455] 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

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

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

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

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

460] 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

461] 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

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

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

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

465] 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

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

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

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

469] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

471] 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

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

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

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

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

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

477] 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.

478] 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

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

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

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

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

483] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

504] 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.

505] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

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

507] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

519] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

527] 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

528] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

531] 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

532] 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.

533] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

544] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

552] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

563] 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

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

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

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

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

568] 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.

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

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

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

572] 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.”

573] 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)

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

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

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

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

578] 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

579] 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.

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

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

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

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

584] 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

585] 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.

586] 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.

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

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

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

590] 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)

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

592] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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