Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

6] 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.

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

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

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

10] 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

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

12] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34] 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.

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

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

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

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

39] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

55] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

62] 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.

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

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

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

66] 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.

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

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

69] 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.

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

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

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

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

74] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

77] 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.

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

79] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. Max Born.

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

81] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

98] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

103] 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)

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

105] 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.

106] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

115] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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

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

137] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

150] 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)

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

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

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

154] 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.

155] 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)

156] 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]

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

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

159] 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.

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

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

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

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

164] 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

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

166] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

179] 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

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

181] 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

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

183] 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.

184] 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)

185] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

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

200] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

209] 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

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

211] 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

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

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

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

215] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

222] 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

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

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

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

226] 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

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

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

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

230] 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.

231] 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.

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

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

234] 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.

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

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

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

238] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

252] 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]

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

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

255] 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.

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

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

258] 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

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

260] 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

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

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

263] 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

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

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

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

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

268] 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.”

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

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

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

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

273] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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.

280] 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.

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

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

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

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

285] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

292] 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)

293] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

302] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

333] 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

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

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

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

338] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

348] 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.

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

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

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

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

353] 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

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

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

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

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

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

359] 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

360] 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.

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

362] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

372] 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)

373] 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)

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

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

376] 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.

377] 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)

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

379] 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.

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

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

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

383] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

391] 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

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

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

394] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own. Adam. L. Gordon

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

396] 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

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

398] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

406] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

422] 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.

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

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

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

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

427] 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.

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

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

430] 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

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

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

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

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

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

436] 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

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

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

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

440] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

452] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buck minister Fuller

453] 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

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

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

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

457] 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)

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

459] 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.

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

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

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

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

464] 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.

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

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

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

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

469] 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

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

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

472] 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)

473] 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)

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

475] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

484] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Boh

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

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

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

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

489] 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.

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

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

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

493] 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.

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

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

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

497] 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.

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

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

500] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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)

513] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off Jenkin Lloynd Jones.

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

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

516] 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

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

518] 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.

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

520] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

529] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

541] 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.

542] 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.

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

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

545] 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.

546] 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

547] 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.

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

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

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

551] 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.

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

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

554] 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

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

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

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

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

559] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body. Herbert Bayard Swope.

560] 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

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

562] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

582] 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

583] 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.

584] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree Ezva Pound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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