Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12] 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.

13] 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.

14] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24] 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

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

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

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

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

29] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

36] 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

37] 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.

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

39] 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)

40] 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

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

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

43] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

59] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

66] 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.

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

68] 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

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

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

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

72] 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

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

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

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

76] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

84] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

98] 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

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

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

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

102] 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

103] 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.

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

105] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

114] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber. John . P. Marquand.

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

116] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

145] 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

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

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

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

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

150] 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)

151] 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.

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

153] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber. John . P. Marquand.

154] 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

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

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

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

158] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

165] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

174] 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.

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

176] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

185] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

191] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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.

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

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

201] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

213] 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

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

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

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

217] 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

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

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

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

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

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

223] 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.

224] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

231] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

251] 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.

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

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

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

255] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

265] 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.

266] 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).

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

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

269] 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.

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

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

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

273] 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.

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

275] 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

276] 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.

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

278] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

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

280] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

285] 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.

286] 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.

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

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

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

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

291] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein

292] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

305] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

317] 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.

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

319] 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.

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

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

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

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

324] 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.

325] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

333] 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)

334] 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.

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

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

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

338] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

348] 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

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

350] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

370] 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.

371] 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

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

373] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

384] 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

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

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

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

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

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

390] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

403] 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.

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

405] 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.

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

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

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

409] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

416] 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)

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

418] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

419] 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

420] 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)

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

422] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future] Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

431] 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)

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

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

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

435] 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.

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

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

438] 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 .

439] 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

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

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

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

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

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

445] 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

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

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

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

449] 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)

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

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

452] 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

453] 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.

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

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

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

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

458] 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

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

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

461] 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

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

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

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

465] 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.

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

467] 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.

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

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

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

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

472] 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]

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

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

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

476] 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.

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

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

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

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

481] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

488] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

496] 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.

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

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

499] 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

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

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

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

503] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

509] 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

510] 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.

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

512] 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)

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

514] 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

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

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

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

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

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

520] 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

521] 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.

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

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

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

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

526] 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)

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

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

529] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

537] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

552] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

564] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

570] 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.

571] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

579] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

586] 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)

587] 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

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

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

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

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

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

593] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

598] 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).

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

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