Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

4] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton.

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

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

7] 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.

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

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

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

11] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22] 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.

23] 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.

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

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

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

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

28] 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

29] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

39] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

53] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

71] 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)

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

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

74] 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

75] 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.

76] 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

77] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

83] 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

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

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

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

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

88] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

109] 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.

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

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

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

113] 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.

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

115] Commonsense is not so common.

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

117] 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.

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

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

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

121] 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.

122] 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.

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

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

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

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

127] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

140] 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

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

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

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

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

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

146] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

162] 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.

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

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

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

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

167] 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.

168] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

178] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

185] 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.

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

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

188] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

195] 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.

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

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

198] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

205] 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

206] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

212] 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

213] 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

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

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

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

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

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

219] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want. L.S.Mc Candless

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

238] 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

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

240] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

249] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. P.W. Bridgman

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

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

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

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

254] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

260] 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

261] 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

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

263] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. P.W. Bridgman

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

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

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

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

268] 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.

269] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

286] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

294] 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).

295] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

302] 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

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

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

305] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde.

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

318] 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)

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

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

321] 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

322] 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.

323] 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.

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

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

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

327] 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

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

329] 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.

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

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

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

333] 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

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

335] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

343] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

346] 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

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

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

349] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives. William James.

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

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

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

353] 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.

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

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

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

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

358] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

367] Commonsense is not so common.

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

369] 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).

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

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

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

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

374] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

389] 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

390] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde.

391] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

400] 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

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

402] 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)

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

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

405] 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.

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

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

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

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

410] 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.

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

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

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

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

415] 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.

416] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

424] 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.

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

426] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

443] 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)

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

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

446] 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.”

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

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

449] 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)

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

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

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

453] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

458] 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.

459] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

460] 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)

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

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

463] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

470] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

482] 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.

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

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

485] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

494] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

504] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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

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

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

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

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

517] 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

518] 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.

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

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

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

522] 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.

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

524] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton.

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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.

531] 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.

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

533] 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.

534] 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.

535] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

542] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

551] 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.

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

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

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

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

556] 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.

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

558] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

587] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

595] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.] J. Edgar Hoover

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

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

598] 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

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

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