Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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.

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

5] 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

6] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22] 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)

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

24] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

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

26] 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.

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

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

29] 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).

30] 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

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

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

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

34] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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.

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

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

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

52] 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.

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

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

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

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

57] 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

58] 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)

59] 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)

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

61] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

67] 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.

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

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

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

71] 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.

72] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

75] 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.

76] 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.

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

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

79] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

87] 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.

88] 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)

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

90] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

99] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

113] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

123] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

130] 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

131] 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]

132] 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.

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

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

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

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

137] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

151] 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

152] 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 .

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

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

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

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

157] 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.

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

159] 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.

160] 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.

161] 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.

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

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

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

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

166] 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

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

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

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

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

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

172] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

178] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

185] 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.

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

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

188] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

202] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

216] 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

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

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

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

220] 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

221] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

228] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

247] 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.

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

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

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

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

252] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

259] 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)

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

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

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

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

264] Commonsense is not so common.

265] 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.

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

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

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

269] 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

270] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

283] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

294] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

310] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

319] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

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

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

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

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

324] 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

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

326] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

333] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

344] 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

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

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

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

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

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

350] 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

351] 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)

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

353] 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

354] 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.

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

356] 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

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

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

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

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

361] 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.

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

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

364] 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

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

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

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

368] 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.

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

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

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

372] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

394] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

395] 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.

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

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

398] 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)

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

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

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

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

403] 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

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

405] 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.

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

407] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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

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

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

432] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

440] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

454] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

461] 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)

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

463] 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.

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

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

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

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

472] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

479] Commonsense is not so common.

480] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

487] 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.

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

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

490] 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.

491] 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)

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

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

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

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

496] 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.

497] 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

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

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

500] 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)

501] 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)

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

503] 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.

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

505] 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

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

507] 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

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

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

510] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

525] 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.

526] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

537] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head. Randolph Bourne.

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

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

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

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

542] 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

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

549] 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.

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

551] 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.

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

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

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

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

556] 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

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

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

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

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

561] 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.

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

563] 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

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

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

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

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

568] 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.

569] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

572] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

585] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

594] 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

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

596] 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.

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

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

599] 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.

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