Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Betrand Russel.

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

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

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

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

6] 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)

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

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

9] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory Alfred North White head.

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

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

12] 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)

13] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory Alfred North White head.

14] 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.

15] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

18] 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

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

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

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

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

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

24] 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.

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

26] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

45] 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.

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

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

48] 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).

49] 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

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

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

52] 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)

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

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

55] 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

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

57] 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

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

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

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

61] 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

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

63] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

81] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

89] 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

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

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

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

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

94] 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

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

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

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

98] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

107] 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

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

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

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

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

112] 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.

113] 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.

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

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

116] 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.

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

118] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

126] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

134] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing

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

136] 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.

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

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

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

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

141] 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.

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

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

144] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

145] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury. Norman Cousins.

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

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

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

149] 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

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

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

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

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

154] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

163] 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.

164] 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

165] 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.

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

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

168] 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)

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

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

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

172] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

192] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

194] 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.

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

196] 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

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

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

199] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] 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.

211] 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

212] 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.

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

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

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

216] 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

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

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

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

220] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

227] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want. L.S.Mc Candless

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

229] 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

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

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

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

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

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

235] 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

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

237] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

250] 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.

251] 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]

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

253] 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.

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

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

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

257] 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.

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

259] 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

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

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

262] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

274] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

285] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

291] 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

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

293] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] 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.

313] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

319] 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.

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

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

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

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

324] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

331] 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

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

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

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

335] 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.

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

337] 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

338] 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).

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

340] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

353] 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.

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

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

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

357] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

367] 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.

368] 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.

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

370] 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)

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

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

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

374] 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

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

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

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

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

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

380] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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

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

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

400] 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.

401] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of Richard. M. Nixon

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

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

404] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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

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

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

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

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

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

420] 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.

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

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

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

424] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

431] 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

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

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

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

435] 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)

436] 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)

437] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

447] 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

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

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

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

451] 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.

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

453] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

462] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

471] 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.

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

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

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

475] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

483] 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

484] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

491] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

498] 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

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

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

501] 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

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

503] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old. John Ciaraci.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

514] 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

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

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

517] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] 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.

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

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

535] 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

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

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

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

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

540] Commonsense is not so common.

541] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers. Abraham Myerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

554] 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

555] 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.

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

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

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

559] 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.

560] 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

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

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

563] 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.

564] 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

565] 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.”

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

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

568] 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.

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

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

571] 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

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

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

574] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

580] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

596] 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

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

598] 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.

599] 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.

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