Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

4] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11] 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.

12] 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)

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

14] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense. Enrich Fromm.

15] 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.

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

17] 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

18] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

25] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

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

45] 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

46] 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.

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

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

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

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

51] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

60] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

67] 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)

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

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

70] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

71] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

81] 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)

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

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

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

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

86] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

97] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

115] 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.

116] 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)

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

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

119] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

123] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

129] 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

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

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

132] 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

133] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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.

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

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

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

143] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

152] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

160] 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)

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

162] 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

163] 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.

164] 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

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

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

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

168] 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)

169] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

180] 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.

181] 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

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

183] 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

184] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

192] 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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

206] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

212] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

214] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

227] 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)

228] 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

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

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

231] 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

232] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

240] 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.

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

242] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

249] 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.

250] 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.

251] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

269] 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 .

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

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

272] 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

273] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

283] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

290] 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.

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

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

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

294] 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)

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

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

297] 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.

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

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

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

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

302] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

305] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

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

308] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

320] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

330] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

334] 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

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

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

337] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert

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

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

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

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

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

343] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

360] 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.

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

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

363] 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

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

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

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

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

368] 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

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

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

371] 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.

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

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

374] 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)

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

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

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

378] 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)

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

380] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

388] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

399] 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

400] 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.

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

402] 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

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

404] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

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

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

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

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

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

410] 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

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

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

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

414] 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.

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

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

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

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

419] 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

420] 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.

421] 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)

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

423] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

431] 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.

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

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

434] 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.

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

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

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

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

439] 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.

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

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

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

443] 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

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

445] 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

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

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

448] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

459] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

469] 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.

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

471] 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

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

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

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

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

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

477] 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.

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

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

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

481] 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.

482] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave Pope Pius – X1

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

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

485] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

495] 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.

496] 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.

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

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

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

500] 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.

501] 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.

502] 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.

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

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

505] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

513] 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.

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

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

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

517] 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

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

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

520] 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)

521] 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.

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

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

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

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

526] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

533] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

541] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

553] 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

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

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

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

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

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

559] 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.

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

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

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

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

564] 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.

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

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

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

568] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

570] 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

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

572] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.] Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

574] 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)

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

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

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

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

579] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

581] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

592] 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

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

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

595] 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)

596] 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

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

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

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

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