Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

4] 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)

5] 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

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

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

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

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

10] 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 .

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

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

13] 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.

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

15] 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

16] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29] 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.

30] 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.

31] 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

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

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

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

35] 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)

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

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

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

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

40] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49] 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

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

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

52] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62] 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)

63] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

69] 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)

70] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

80] 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.

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

82] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. Gertrude Stein.

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

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

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

86] 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)

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

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

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

90] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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

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

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

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

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

96] 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.

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

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

99] 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

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

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

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

103] 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.

104] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

110] 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

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

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

113] 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

114] 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.

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

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

117] 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

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

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

120] 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)

121] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

132] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

140] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

149] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

156] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

159] 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)

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

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

162] 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

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

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

165] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

173] 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.”

174] 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.

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

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

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

178] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

187] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

194] 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.

195] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

198] 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

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

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

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

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

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

204] 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.

205] 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

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

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

208] 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

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

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

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

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

214] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

215] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

231] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality. Will and Ariel Durant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

241] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

259] 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.

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

261] 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)

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

263] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

277] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

284] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

291] 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.

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

293] 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

294] 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.

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

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

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

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

299] 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.

300] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

322] 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.

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

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

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

326] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)

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

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

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

330] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized] Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)

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

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

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

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

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

336] 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.

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

338] 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

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

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

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

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

343] 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.

344] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

350] Commonsense is not so common.

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

352] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

353] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

360] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

361] 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

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

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

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

365] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

383] 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.

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

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

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

387] 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.

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

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

390] 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

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

392] 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.

393] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

405] 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.

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

407] 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.

408] 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.

409] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

417] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

425] 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.

426] 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

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

428] 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

429] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

436] 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

437] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

444] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

450] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

462] 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)

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

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

465] 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)

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

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

472] 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.

473] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

480] 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

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

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

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

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

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

486] 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

487] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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

502] 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)

503] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

513] 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

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

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

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

517] 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.

518] 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

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

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

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

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

523] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

533] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

547] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

554] 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)

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

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

557] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

558] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

569] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

583] 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.

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

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

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

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

588] 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

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

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

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

592] 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.

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

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

595] 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).

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

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

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

599] 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)

600] 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.