Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

2] 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

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

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

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

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

7] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24] 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

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

26] 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)

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

28] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

34] 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

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

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

37] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

55] 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.

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

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

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

59] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Kovzy bski

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

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

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

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

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

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

66] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. H.L Mencken.

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

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

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

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

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

72] 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

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

74] 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).

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

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

77] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow] Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)

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

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

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

81] 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

82] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

101] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

112] 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.

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

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

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

116] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

122] 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.

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

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

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

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

127] 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

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

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

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

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

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

133] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

135] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

143] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

149] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

157] 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

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

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

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

161] 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).

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

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

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

165] 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)

166] 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.

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

168] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life. Sigmund frued.

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

170] 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.

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

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

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

174] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

183] 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

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

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

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

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

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

189] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).

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

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

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

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

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

195] 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

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

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

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

199] 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.

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

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

202] 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

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

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

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

206] 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

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

208] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

210] 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.

211] 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.

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

213] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

219] 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

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

221] 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.

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

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

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

225] 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)

226] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

231] 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.

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

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

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

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

236] 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

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

238] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

246] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

253] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

272] 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

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

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

275] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

283] 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)

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

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

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

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

288] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

295] 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

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

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

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

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

300] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

304] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

319] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

326] 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

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

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

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

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

331] 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.

332] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

341] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

351] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

364] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

380] 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.

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

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

383] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

391] 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

392] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

399] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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)

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

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

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

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

419] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

420] 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.

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

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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

428] 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)

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

430] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

437] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

447] 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)

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

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

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

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

452] 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 .

453] 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.

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

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

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

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

458] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

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

460] 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)

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

462] 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.

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

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

465] 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.

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

475] 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

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

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

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

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

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

481] 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)

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

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

484] 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.

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

486] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

493] 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

494] 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.

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

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

497] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

505] 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

506] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

515] 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.

516] 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.

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

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

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

520] 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

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

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

523] 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

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

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

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

527] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

535] 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.”

536] 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

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

538] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable. Duc de La Rochefoucauld.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

548] 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

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

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

551] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

558] 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

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

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

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

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

563] 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

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

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

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

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

568] The brighter you are the more you have not learn. Don Herold.

569] 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

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

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

572] 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)

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

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

575] 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.

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

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

578] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

590] 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

591] 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

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

593] 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

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

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

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

597] 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.

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

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

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