Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

2] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)

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

12] 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)

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

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

15] 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)

16] 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.

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

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

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

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

21] 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.

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

23] 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

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

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

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

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

28] 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.

29] 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.

30] 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.”

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

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

33] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

36] 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

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

38] 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.

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

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

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

42] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

49] 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.

50] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte.

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

52] 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)

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

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

55] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

65] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

72] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

78] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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.

86] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized] Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)

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

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

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

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

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

92] 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.

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

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

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

96] 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

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

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

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

100] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

109] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

125] 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)

126] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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)

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

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

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

139] 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.

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

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

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

143] 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.

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

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

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

147] 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.

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

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

150] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

151] 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.

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

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

154] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine.

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

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

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

158] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

169] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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

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

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

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

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

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

183] 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

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

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

186] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow. William Lyon Phelps.

187] 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

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

189] 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.

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

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

192] 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.

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

194] 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

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

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

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

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

199] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

207] 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

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

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

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

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

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

213] 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

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

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

216] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

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

218] 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)

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

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

221] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

236] 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

237] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte.

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

239] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness, Bertrand Russell.

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

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

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

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

244] 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

245] 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.

246] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

248] 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.

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

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

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

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

253] 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.

254] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

267] 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)

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

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

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

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

272] 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)

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

274] 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).

275] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

287] 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

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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)

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

295] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

297] 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

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

299] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

305] 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.

306] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)

307] 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

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

309] 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

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

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

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

313] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

319] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

334] 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.

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

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

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

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

339] 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

340] 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.

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

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

343] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

354] 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.

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

356] 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.

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

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

359] 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

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

361] 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

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

363] 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)

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

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

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

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

368] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

379] 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

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

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

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

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

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

385] 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

386] 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.

387] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.] Herbert. V. Prochnow

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

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

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

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

392] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

406] 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.

407] 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.

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

409] 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

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

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

412] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

418] 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.

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

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

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

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

423] 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)

424] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine.

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

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

427] 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)

428] 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.

429] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External. Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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.

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

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

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

455] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

463] 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.

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

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

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

467] 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.

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

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

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

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

472] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

482] 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.

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

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

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

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

487] 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)

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

489] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

497] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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.

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

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

515] 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.

516] 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.

517] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

526] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

527] 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.

528] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

539] 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.

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

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

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

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

550] 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

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

552] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized] Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)

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

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

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

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

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

558] 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

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

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

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

562] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

570] 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)

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

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

573] 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

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

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

576] 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.

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

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

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

580] 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.

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

582] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

588] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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