Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

7] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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)

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

16] 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.

17] 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.

18] 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

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

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

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

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

23] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

30] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. Wendell Phillips.

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

32] 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)

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

34] 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.

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

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

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

38] 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

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

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

41] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

53] 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

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

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

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

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

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

59] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

67] 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

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

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

70] 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

71] 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.

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

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

74] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire

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

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

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

78] 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.

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

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

81] 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)

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

83] 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

84] 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)

85] 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.

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

87] 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)

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

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

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

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

92] 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

93] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

109] 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

110] 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 .

111] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

120] 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

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

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

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

124] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

130] 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

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

132] 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.

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

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

135] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

146] Man is a social animal. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)

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

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

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

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

151] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

165] 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

166] 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

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

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

169] 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.

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

171] 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.

172] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

179] 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.

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

181] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).

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

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

184] 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.

185] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

196] 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

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

198] 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)

199] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

213] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

220] 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.

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

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

223] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

230] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

250] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

263] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

265] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

302] 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.

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

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

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

306] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar wilde.

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

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

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

310] 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.

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

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

313] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

326] 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

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

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

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

330] 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

331] 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)

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

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

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

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

336] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

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

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

339] 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)

340] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

350] 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

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

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

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

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

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

356] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

370] 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.

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

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

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

374] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

381] 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

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

383] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

391] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

403] 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.

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

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

406] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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

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

416] 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

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

418] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

428] 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)

429] 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

430] 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

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

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

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

434] 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

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

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

437] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

452] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

460] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves Virginia Woolf

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

462] 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.

463] 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.

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

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

466] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

473] 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

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

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

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

477] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras Vic Oliver.

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

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

480] 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.

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

482] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar wilde.

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

484] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

487] 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)

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

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

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

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

492] 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.

493] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

496] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Kovzy bski

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

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

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

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

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

502] 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.

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

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

505] 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

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

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

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

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

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

511] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

520] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

535] 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.

536] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it. Herbert V. Prochnow.

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

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

539] 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.

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

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

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

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

544] 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

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

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

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

548] 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.

549] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

555] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

562] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

565] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

593] 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.

594] 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.

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

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

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

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

599] 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.

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