Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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

2] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9] 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

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

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

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

13] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21] 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).

22] 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)

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

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

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

26] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41] 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.

42] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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)

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

50] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

64] 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

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

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

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

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

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

70] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

79] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

86] 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

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

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

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

90] 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.

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

92] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

94] 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.

95] 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.

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

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

98] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

114] 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.

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

116] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Willian Jennings Bryan.

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

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

119] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

163] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

178] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

182] 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.

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

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

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

186] 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.

187] 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

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

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

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

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

192] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

201] 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.

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

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

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

205] 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.

206] 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.

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

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

209] 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.

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

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

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

213] 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.

214] 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.

215] 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

216] 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

217] 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.

218] 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

219] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

225] 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)

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

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

228] 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

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

230] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

231] Commonsense is not so common.

232] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

235] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

245] 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

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

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

248] 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.

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

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

251] 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.

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

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

254] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

262] 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.

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

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

265] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

276] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

283] 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.

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

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

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

287] 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.

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

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

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

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

292] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

304] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

310] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability Henry Ford

311] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

323] 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

324] 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)

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

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

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

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

329] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

336] 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)

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

338] 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.

339] 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)

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

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

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

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

344] 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)

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

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

347] 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

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

349] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

357] 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

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

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

360] 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

361] 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.

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

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

364] 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

365] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

376] 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)

377] 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.

378] 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.

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

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

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

382] 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)

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

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

385] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

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

387] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

389] 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.

390] 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

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

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

393] 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.

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

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

396] 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.

397] 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

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

399] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

409] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

416] 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

417] 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

418] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emersom Fosdick.

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

420] 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.

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

422] 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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

434] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

442] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

456] 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)

457] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

463] 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

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

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

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

467] 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.

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

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

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

471] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken

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

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

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

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

476] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

482] 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)

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

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

485] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

495] 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.

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

497] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

516] 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.

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

518] 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.”

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

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

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

522] 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

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

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

525] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] 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

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

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

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

536] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emersom Fosdick.

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

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

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

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

541] 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

542] 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.

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

544] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

553] 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.

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

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

556] 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).

557] 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.

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

559] 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.

560] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

591] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

599] 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.

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