Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

4] 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).

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

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

7] 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

8] 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)

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

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

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

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

13] 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.

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

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

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

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

18] 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

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

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

21] 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)

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

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

24] 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

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

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

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

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

29] 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

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

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

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

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

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

35] 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.

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

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

38] 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

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

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

41] 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.

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

43] 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

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

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

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

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

48] 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.

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

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

51] 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.

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

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

54] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

60] 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)

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

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

63] 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.

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

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

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

67] 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

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

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

70] 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

71] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

80] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

89] 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.

90] 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.

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

92] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

104] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

116] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

123] 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

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

125] 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.

126] 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

127] 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

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

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

130] 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.

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

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

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

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

135] 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.

136] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

143] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

157] 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.

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

159] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

166] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

173] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

182] 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

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

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

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

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

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

188] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

196] 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

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

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

199] 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

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

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

202] 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

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

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

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

206] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

209] 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.

210] 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.

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

212] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

224] 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.

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

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

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

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

229] 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.

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

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

232] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

242] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another. John Burroughs.

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

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

245] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

251] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

252] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

271] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

289] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

303] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

310] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

325] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

332] 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.

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

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

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

336] 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.

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

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

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

340] 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.

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

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

343] 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

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

345] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

352] 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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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

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

360] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

367] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

373] 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.

374] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

380] 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

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

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

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

384] 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

385] 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

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

387] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

395] 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.”

396] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

400] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

405] 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.

406] 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

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

408] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

432] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

441] 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.

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

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

444] 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)

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

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

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

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

449] 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

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

451] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

457] 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

458] 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)

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

460] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

466] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

473] 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.

474] 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.

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

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

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

478] 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

479] 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

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

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

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

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

484] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

514] 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.

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

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

517] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

524] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

539] 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.

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

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

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

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

552] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

559] 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

560] 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.

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

562] 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.

563] 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

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

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

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

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

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

569] 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

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

571] 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.

572] 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

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

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

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

576] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

582] 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)

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

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

585] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

592] 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.

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

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

595] 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.

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

597] 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

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

599] 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.

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