Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.

2] 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

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

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

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

6] 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.

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

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

9] 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.

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

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

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

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

14] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34] 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

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

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

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

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

39] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

40] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

50] 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.

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

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

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

54] 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)

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

56] 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)

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

58] 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.

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

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

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

62] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

68] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

80] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

88] 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.

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

90] 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)

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

92] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

100] 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.

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

102] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

110] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

124] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

133] 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.

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

135] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

145] 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.

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

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

148] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

156] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

164] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

165] 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)

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

167] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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.

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

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

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

181] 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.

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

183] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

185] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

192] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

201] 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)

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

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

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

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

206] 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

207] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

226] 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

227] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

238] 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

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

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

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

242] 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

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

244] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] 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

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

272] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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

280] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

286] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

297] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

310] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

321] 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

322] 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.

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

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

325] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

332] 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.”

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

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

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

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

337] 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.

338] 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

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

340] 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.

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

342] 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.

343] 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)

344] 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.

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

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

347] 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.

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

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

350] 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

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

352] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

363] 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.

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

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

366] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury. Norman Cousins.

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

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

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

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

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

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

373] 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

374] 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.

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

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

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

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

379] 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.

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

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

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

383] 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.

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

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

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

387] 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.

388] 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.

389] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. Max Born.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits. S.N. Behrman.

398] 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.

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

400] 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

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

402] 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

403] 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

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

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

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

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

408] 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.

409] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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.

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

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

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

423] Commonsense is not so common.

424] 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

425] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

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

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

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

430] 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.

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

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

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

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

435] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. Johann. W. Von Goethe

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

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

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

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

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

441] 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

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

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

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

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

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

447] 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

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

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

450] 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.

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

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

453] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

460] 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.

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

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

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

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

465] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

477] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

490] 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.

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

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

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

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

495] 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

496] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

511] 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)

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

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

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

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

516] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)

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

518] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

519] 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

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

521] 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)

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

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

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

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

526] 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.

527] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

536] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

549] 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)

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

551] 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.

552] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. Max Born.

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

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

555] 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

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

557] 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

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

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

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

561] 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

562] 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

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

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

565] 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.

566] 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

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

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

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

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

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

572] 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.

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

574] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

583] 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

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

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

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

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

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

589] 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.

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

591] 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)

592] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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