Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Commonsense is not so common.

2] 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

3] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

9] 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.

10] 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

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

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

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

14] 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]

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

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

17] 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.

18] Commonsense is not so common.

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

20] 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

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

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

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

24] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42] 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)

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

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

45] 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.

46] 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)

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

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

49] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.] Oswald spengler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57] 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.

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

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

60] 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).

61] 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.

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

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

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

65] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.] Oswald spengler

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

67] 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.

68] 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

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

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

71] 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

72] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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

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

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

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

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

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

91] 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.

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

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

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

95] 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

96] 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.

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

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

99] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

106] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

120] 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

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

122] 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 .

123] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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

136] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

138] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

148] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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)

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

156] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

163] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

185] 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.

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

187] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

202] 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.

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

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

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

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

207] 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.

208] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

217] 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.

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

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

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

221] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

227] 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

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

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

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

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

232] 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

233] 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)

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

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

236] 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.

237] 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

238] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

244] 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.

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

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

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

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

249] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

273] 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)

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

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

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

277] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

285] 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

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

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

288] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

301] 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.

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

303] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

309] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

317] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

324] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

331] 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.

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

333] 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)

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

335] 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

336] Every age is modem to those who are living in it Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo

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

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

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

340] 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.

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

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

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

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

345] 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

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

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

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

349] 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.

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

351] 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

352] 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

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

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

355] 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

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

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

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

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

360] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

370] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

398] 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).

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

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

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

402] 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.

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

404] 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.

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

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

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

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

409] 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

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

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

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

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

414] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

427] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

435] 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.

436] 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.

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

438] 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.

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

440] 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.

441] 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.

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

443] 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.

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

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

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

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

448] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

457] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

463] 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

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

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

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

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

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

469] 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.

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

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

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

473] 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

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

475] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

484] 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.

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

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

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

488] 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.

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

490] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

497] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Betrand Russel.

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

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

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

501] 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.

502] 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.

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

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

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

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

507] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

519] 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

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

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

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

523] 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.

524] 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

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

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

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

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

529] 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

530] 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)

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

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

533] 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]

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

535] 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

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

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

538] 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

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

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

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

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

543] 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

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

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

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

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

548] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

563] 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.

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

565] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

580] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

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

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

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

584] 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)

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

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

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

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

589] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Betrand Russel.

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

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

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

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

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

595] 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.

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

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

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

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

600] 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.