Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

5] 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.

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

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

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

9] 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.

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

11] 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.

12] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25] 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.

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

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

28] 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

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

30] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Harry .S. Truman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

37] 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)

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

39] 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.

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

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

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

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

44] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

50] 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.

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

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

53] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

61] 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

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

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

64] 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.

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

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

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

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

69] 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.

70] 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)

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

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

73] 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.

74] 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.

75] 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

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

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

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

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

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

81] 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).

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

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

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

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

86] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

102] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

105] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

122] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

133] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

140] 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.

141] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

149] 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)

150] 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

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

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

153] 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

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

155] 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.

156] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

165] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

174] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

183] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

194] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

195] 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.

196] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] 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)

211] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

219] 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)

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

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

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

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

224] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

225] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

233] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

243] 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.

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

245] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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.

255] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

266] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

275] 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.

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

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

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

279] 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

280] 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)

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

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

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

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

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] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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.

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

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

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

297] 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

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

299] 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

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

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

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

303] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

310] 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.

311] 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]

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

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

314] 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

315] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

324] 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.

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

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

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

328] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber. John . P. Marquand.

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

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

331] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

339] 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.

340] 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

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

342] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

348] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

379] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

380] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

392] 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.

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

394] 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

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

396] 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

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

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

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

400] 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.

401] 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).

402] 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

403] 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.

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

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

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

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

408] 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)

409] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

415] 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.

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

417] 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.

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

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

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

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

422] 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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

428] 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)

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

430] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

438] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

460] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

468] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

478] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)

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

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

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

482] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

491] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

493] 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.

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

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

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

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

498] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

501] 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

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

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

504] 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

505] 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

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

507] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

509] 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.

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

511] 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

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

513] 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

514] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

522] 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

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

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

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

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

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

528] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

538] 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.

539] 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)

540] 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.

541] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

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

543] 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.

544] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

548] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

567] 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

568] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

578] 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.

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

580] 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

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

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

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

584] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

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

586] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

598] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

600] 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.