Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

5] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15] 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

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

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

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

19] 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.

20] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32] 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.

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

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

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

36] 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

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

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

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

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

41] 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]

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

43] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

53] 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)

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

55] 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.

56] 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)

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

58] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

66] 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).

67] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

86] 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)

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

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

89] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

103] 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

104] 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

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

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

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

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

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

110] 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)

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

112] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits. S.N. Behrman.

113] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

119] 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.

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

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

122] 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.

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

124] 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

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

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

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

128] 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

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

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

131] 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.

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

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

134] 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.

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

136] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

138] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

145] 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

146] 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.

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

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

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

150] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

158] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

167] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

174] 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

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

176] 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

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

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

179] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

180] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

195] 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)

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

197] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

204] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

212] 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.

213] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

220] 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

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

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

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

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

225] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

232] 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

233] 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

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

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

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

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

238] 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

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

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

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

242] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

250] 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

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

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

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

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

255] 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.

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

257] 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

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

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

260] 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

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

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

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

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

265] 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

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

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

268] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles .M . Schulz.

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

270] 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.

271] 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

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

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

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

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

276] 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)

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

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

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

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

281] 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

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

283] 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.

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

285] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

302] 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.

303] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

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

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

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

316] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

329] 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.

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

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

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

333] 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

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

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

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

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

338] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

344] 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.

345] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

351] 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.

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

353] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

360] 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)

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

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

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

364] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

371] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

384] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

393] 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.

394] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

402] 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.

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

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

405] 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

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

407] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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

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

416] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

417] 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

418] 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.

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

420] 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

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

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

423] 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

424] 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

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

426] 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.

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

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

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

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

431] 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.

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

433] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

439] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly. Irene Peter

440] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

441] 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.

442] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes. Herrick Johnson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

449] 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)

450] 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.

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

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

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

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

455] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

471] 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.

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

473] 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

474] 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.

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

476] 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)

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

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

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

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

481] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

493] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

502] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

511] 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.

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

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

514] 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

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

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

517] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw

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

519] 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

520] 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.

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

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

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

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

525] 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

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

527] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits. S.N. Behrman.

528] 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.

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

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

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

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

533] 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.

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

535] 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

536] 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)

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

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

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

540] 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)

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

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

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

544] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

550] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

558] 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.

559] 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

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

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

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

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

564] 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.

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

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

567] 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.

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

569] 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)

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

571] 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.

572] 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.

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

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

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

576] 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)

577] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

600] 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.