Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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

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

5] 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.

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

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

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

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

10] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

37] 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)

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

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

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

41] 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.

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

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

44] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

58] 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.

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

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

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

62] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70] 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.

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

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

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

74] 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)

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

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

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

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

79] 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.

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

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

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

83] 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)

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

85] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

94] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

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

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

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

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

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

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

101] 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.

102] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

108] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

111] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

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

113] 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

114] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

128] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

136] 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.

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

138] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

157] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

173] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”

174] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

175] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

181] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

190] 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

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

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

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

194] 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.

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

196] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

205] 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.

206] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

218] 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.

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

220] 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.

221] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

230] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

239] 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

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

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

242] 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

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

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

245] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

253] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

261] 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.

262] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

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

264] 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

265] 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)

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

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

268] 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.

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

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

271] 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

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

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

274] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

283] 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.

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

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

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

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

288] 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]

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

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

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

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

293] 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.

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

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

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

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

298] 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.

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

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

301] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

310] 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

311] 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

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

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

314] 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.

315] 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.

316] 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

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

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

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

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

321] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

331] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

338] 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

339] 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

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

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

342] 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.

343] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

348] 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

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

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

351] 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)

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

353] 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)

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

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

356] 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)

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

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

359] 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

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

361] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

379] 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.

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

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

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

383] 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.

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

385] 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.

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

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

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

389] 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)

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

391] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

399] 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.

400] 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)

401] 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

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

403] 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.

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

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

406] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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)

415] 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.

416] 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.

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

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

419] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

428] 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

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

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

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

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

433] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr Robert. F. Kennedy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

440] 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.

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

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

443] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

450] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

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

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

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

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

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

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

457] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

464] 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.

465] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

473] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

493] 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

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

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

496] 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.

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

498] 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.

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

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

501] 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

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

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

504] 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

505] 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.

506] 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

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

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

509] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

518] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have Stewart Harrol

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

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

521] 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.

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

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

524] 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)

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

526] 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.

527] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

539] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr Robert. F. Kennedy.

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

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

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

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

544] 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.

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

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

547] 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.

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

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

550] 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)

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

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

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

554] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

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

556] 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.

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

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

559] 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

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

561] 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

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

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

564] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

581] 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

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

583] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

591] 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.

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

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

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

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

596] 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)

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

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

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

600] 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.