Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20] 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

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

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

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

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

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

26] 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

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

28] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

40] Commonsense is not so common.

41] 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)

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

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

44] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

51] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

58] 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

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

60] 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.

61] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one] Jdscha Heifetz

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

63] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

72] 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.

73] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

80] 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)

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

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

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

84] 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

85] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost

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

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

88] 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

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

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

91] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

99] 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.

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

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

102] 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

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

104] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

111] 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.

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

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

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

115] 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)

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

117] 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)

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

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

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

121] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. Thomas. R. Ybarra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

129] 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

130] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. Thomas. R. Ybarra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

140] 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.

141] 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.

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

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

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

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

146] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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

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

156] 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.

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

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

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

160] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

167] 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

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

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

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

171] 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.

172] 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).

173] 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.

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

175] 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

176] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

184] 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

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

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

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

188] 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

189] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

197] 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.

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

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

200] 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.

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

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

203] 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

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

205] 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.

206] 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.”

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

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

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

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

211] 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

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

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

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

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

216] 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

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

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

219] 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

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

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

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

223] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

231] 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

232] 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

233] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

241] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

247] 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.

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

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

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

251] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

261] 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

262] 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

263] 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

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

265] 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

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

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

268] 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

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

270] 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.

271] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort William James.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

280] 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

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

282] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

292] 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.

293] 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)

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

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

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

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

298] 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.

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

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

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

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

303] 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)

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

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

306] 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

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

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

309] 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)

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

311] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

320] 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

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

322] 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

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

324] 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.

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

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

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

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

329] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

348] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

359] 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.

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

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

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

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

364] 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)

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

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

367] 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

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

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

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

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

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

373] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

382] 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

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

384] 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).

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

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

387] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz .

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

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

390] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz .

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

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

393] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

400] 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)

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

402] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

409] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

417] 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)

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

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

420] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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)

430] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

439] 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]

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

441] 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.

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

443] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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.

452] 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

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

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

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

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

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

458] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

468] 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

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

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

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

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

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

474] 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.

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

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

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

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

479] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

493] 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)

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

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

496] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

503] 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)

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

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

506] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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).

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

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

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

534] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

548] 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)

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

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

551] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

554] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

561] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

568] 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

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

570] 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

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

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

573] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

581] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

592] 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)

593] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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