Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10] 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

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

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

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

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

15] 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

16] 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

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

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

19] 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).

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

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

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

23] 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.

24] 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

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

26] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36] 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)

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

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

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

40] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

65] 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

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

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

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

69] 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

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

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

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

73] 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

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

75] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

78] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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.

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

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

88] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann. W. Von Goethe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

101] 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.

102] 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.

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

104] 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.

105] 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

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

107] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

117] 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)

118] 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

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

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

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

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

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

124] 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

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

126] 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.

127] 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

128] 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.

129] 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

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

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

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

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

134] 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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

144] 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)

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

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

147] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

153] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

163] 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.”

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

165] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

172] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

174] 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.

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

176] 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)

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

178] 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.

179] 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

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

181] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

185] 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)

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

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

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

189] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

195] 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.

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

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

198] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

207] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

208] 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)

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

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

211] 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

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

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

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

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

216] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

222] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

230] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

231] 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.

232] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

243] 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.

244] Commonsense is not so common.

245] 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.

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

247] 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

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

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

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

251] 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

252] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

258] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

278] 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.

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

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

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

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

283] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

296] 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.

297] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

308] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

322] 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

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

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

325] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

333] 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.

334] 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).

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

336] 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)

337] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

343] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

355] 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

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

357] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

365] 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.

366] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

384] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

394] 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

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

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

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

398] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

404] 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.

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

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

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

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

409] 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.

410] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

433] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

442] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

446] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

450] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

457] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

464] 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

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

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

471] 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

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

473] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

486] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

495] 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

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

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

498] 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.

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

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

501] 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.

502] 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.

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

504] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

524] 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

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

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

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

528] 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)

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

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

531] 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.

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

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

534] 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

535] 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.

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

537] 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

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

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

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

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

542] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

551] 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

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

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

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

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

556] 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

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

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

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

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

561] 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

562] 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)

563] 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.

564] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

578] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

589] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

595] 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

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

597] 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

598] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.] Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]

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

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