Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields.

4] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11] 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.”

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

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

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

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

16] 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

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

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

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

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

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

22] 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.

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

24] 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

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

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

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

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

29] 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)

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

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

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

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

34] 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.

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

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

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

38] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

46] 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 .

47] 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.

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

49] 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

50] 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.

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

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

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

54] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

63] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73] 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

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

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

76] 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

77] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

91] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

103] 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

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

105] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

119] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.] Herbert. V. Prochnow

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

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

122] 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)

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

124] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

143] 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)

144] 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

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

146] 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

147] 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.

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

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

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

151] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

157] 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.

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

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

160] 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

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

162] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

173] 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

174] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

187] 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

188] 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)

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

190] 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.

191] 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

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

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

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

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

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

197] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. Lin Yutang.

198] 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

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

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

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

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

203] 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.

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

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

206] 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.

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

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

209] 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.

210] 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.

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

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

213] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

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

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

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

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

219] 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

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

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

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

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

224] 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)

225] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

231] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

241] 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)

242] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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

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

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

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

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

268] 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.

269] 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.

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

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

272] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow] Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)

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

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

275] 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.

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

277] 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.

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

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

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

281] 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.

282] 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

283] 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

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

285] 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

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

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

288] 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

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

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

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

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

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

294] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

307] 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)

308] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

320] 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

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

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

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

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

325] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris.

326] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

349] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

369] 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.”

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

371] 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.

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

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

374] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

383] 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.

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

385] 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.

386] 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.

387] 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

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

389] 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.

390] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

402] 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

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

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

405] 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)

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

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

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

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

410] 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

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

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

413] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

424] 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 .

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

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

427] 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

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

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

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

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

432] 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.

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

434] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

447] 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.

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

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

450] 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.

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

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

453] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

461] 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.

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

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

464] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

468] 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

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

470] 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

471] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

485] 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

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

487] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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

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

503] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head. Randolph Bourne.

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

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

506] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

516] 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

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

518] 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.

519] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.] Herbert. V. Prochnow

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

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

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

523] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

529] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

552] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

561] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

571] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

589] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

595] 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]

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

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

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

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

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