Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

17] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28] 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.

29] 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)

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

31] 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.

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

33] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

40] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

46] 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.

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

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

49] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External. Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)

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

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

52] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

65] 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

66] 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

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

68] 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

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

70] 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

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

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

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

74] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

93] 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

94] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

102] 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)

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

104] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

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

106] 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)

107] 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.

108] 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

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

110] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

119] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford.

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

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

122] 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

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

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

125] 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)

126] 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.

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

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

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

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

131] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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

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

141] 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.

142] 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

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

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

145] 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.

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

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

148] 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

149] 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

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

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

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

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

154] 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.

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

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

157] 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

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

159] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

170] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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

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

179] 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.

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

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

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

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

184] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense. Enrich Fromm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

204] 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.

205] 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.

206] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

219] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

225] 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

226] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

234] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

253] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

265] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

273] 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.

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

275] 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.

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

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

278] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External. Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

286] 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.

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

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

289] 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

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

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

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

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

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

295] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

305] 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]

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

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

308] 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.

309] 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

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

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

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

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

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

315] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

328] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

334] 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.

335] 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.

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

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

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

339] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr Robert. F. Kennedy.

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

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

342] 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

343] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

352] 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.

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

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

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

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

357] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] 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

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

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

381] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

383] 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.

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

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

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

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

388] 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

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

390] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

398] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

405] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

411] 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

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

413] 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

414] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

423] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

430] 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)

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

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

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

435] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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.

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

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

454] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old. John Ciaraci.

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

456] 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

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

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

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

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

461] 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.

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

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

464] 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

465] 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)

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

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

468] 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.

469] 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).

470] 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

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

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

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

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

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

476] 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)

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

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

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

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

481] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

488] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

494] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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

502] 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.

503] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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

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

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

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

516] 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)

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

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

519] 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.

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

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

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

523] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

534] 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.

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

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

537] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

544] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

550] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

557] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

569] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

575] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

581] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

587] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

599] Commonsense is not so common.

600] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb