Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. Roger Allen.

4] 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

5] 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)

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

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

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

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

10] 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.

11] 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

12] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19] 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)

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

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

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

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

24] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

28] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

35] 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

36] 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.

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

38] 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.

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

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

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

42] 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)

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

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

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

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

47] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

63] 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.

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

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

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

67] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

76] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

91] 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

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

93] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

94] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

98] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

112] Commonsense is not so common.

113] 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.

114] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

115] 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

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

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

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

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

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

121] 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.

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

123] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

130] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

137] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

144] 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.

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

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

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

148] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz .

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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.

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

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

157] 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

158] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

166] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

183] 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

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

185] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

197] 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.

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

199] 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

200] 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)

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

202] 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

203] 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

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

205] 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).

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

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

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

209] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. Charles Haddam Spurgeon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

236] 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.

237] 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.

238] 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.

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

240] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

245] 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

246] 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.

247] 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

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

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

250] 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)

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

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

253] 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.

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

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

256] 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.

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

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

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

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

261] 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.

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

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

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

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

266] 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

267] 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.

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

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

270] 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.

271] 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

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

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

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

275] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

282] 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.

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

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

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

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

287] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

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

291] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

301] 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)

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

303] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him. Eleanor Roosevelt.

304] 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

305] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

324] 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.

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

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

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

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

329] 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

330] 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)

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

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

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

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

335] 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

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

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

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

339] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. Charles Haddam Spurgeon.

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

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

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

343] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

353] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

355] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

374] 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.

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

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

377] 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)

378] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

392] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

408] 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

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

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

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

412] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

423] 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.

424] 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

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

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

427] 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.

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

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

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

431] 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.

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

433] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

443] 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

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

445] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)

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

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

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

449] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann. W. Von Goethe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

468] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

476] 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.

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

478] When it is dark enough you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

496] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

502] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

515] 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

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

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

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

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

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

521] 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.

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

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

524] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] 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)

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

534] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

546] 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

547] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

566] 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.

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

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

569] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

573] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him. Eleanor Roosevelt.

574] 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

575] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

592] 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.”

593] 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

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

595] 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.

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

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

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

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

600] 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