Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18] 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.

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

20] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32] 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

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

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

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

36] 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.

37] 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)

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

39] 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

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

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

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

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

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

45] 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)

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

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

48] 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.

49] 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.

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

51] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

57] 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)

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

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

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

61] 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

62] 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.

63] 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)

64] 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

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

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

67] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

78] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

94] 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

95] 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.

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

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

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

99] 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.

100] 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

101] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

108] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

115] 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.

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

117] 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.

118] 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

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

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

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

122] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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.

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

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

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

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

144] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

153] 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.

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

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

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

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

158] 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

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

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

161] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

163] 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.

164] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

175] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

181] 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.

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

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

184] 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.

185] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives. William James.

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

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

188] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

191] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

199] 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.

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

201] 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

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

203] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

212] 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.

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

214] 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.

215] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

222] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

230] 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

231] 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

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

233] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

237] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

242] 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.

243] 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)

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

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

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

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

248] 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.

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

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

251] 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)

252] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

267] 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)

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

269] 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

270] 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.

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

272] 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.

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

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

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

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

277] 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]

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

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

280] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

287] 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)

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

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

290] 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.

291] 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.

292] 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)

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

294] 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

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

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

297] 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)

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

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

300] 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

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

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

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

304] 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.

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

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

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

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

309] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

315] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

325] 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.

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

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

328] 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.

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

330] 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.

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

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

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

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

335] 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

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

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

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

339] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

345] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

357] 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

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

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

360] 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

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

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

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

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

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

366] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

375] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

384] 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.

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

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

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

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

389] 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.

390] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

401] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

404] 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.

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

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

407] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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)

415] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

424] 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

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

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

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

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

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

430] 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

431] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

437] 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

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

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

440] 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

441] 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

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

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

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

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

446] 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

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

448] 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

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

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

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

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

453] 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

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

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

456] 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.

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

458] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

464] 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.

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

466] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

473] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

479] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

500] 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.

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

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

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

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

505] 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

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

507] 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)

508] 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.

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

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

511] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

528] 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.

529] 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)

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

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

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

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

534] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

541] 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.

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

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

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

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

546] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

555] 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.

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

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

558] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

559] 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.

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

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

562] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

569] 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.

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

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

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

573] 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

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

575] 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

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

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

578] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

589] 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

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

591] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

599] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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