Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.

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

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

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

5] 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.

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

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

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

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

10] 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.

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

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

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

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

15] 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)

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

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

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

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

20] 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

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

22] 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

23] 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.

24] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly Joseph Wood Krutch

25] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)

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

27] 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.

28] 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

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

30] 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.

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

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

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

34] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

45] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

53] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

59] 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

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

61] 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

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

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

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

65] 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)

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

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

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

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

70] 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.

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

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

73] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

76] 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

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

78] 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

79] 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)

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

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

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

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

84] 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.

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

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

87] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

99] 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.

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

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

102] 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

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

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

105] 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 .

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

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

108] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

114] 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.

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

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

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

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

119] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

141] 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.

142] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

147] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. Morris. L. Ernst.

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

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

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

151] 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.

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

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

154] 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.

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

156] 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

157] 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

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

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

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

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

162] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future] Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)

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

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

165] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

172] 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.

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

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

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

176] 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

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

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

179] 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

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

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

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

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

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

185] 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

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

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

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

189] 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.

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

191] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

199] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

212] 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.

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

214] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

228] 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.

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

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

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

232] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.] Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]

233] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

242] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

255] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

265] 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)

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

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

268] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

276] 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.

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

278] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

292] 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

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

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

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

296] 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

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

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

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

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

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

302] 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).

303] 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.

304] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

305] 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

306] 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

307] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

318] 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

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

320] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

344] 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)

345] 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.

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

347] 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)

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

349] 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.

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

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

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

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

354] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence. Morris. L. Ernst.

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

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

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

358] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

365] 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.

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

367] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense. Enrich Fromm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

386] 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.

387] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

394] 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

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

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

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

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

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

400] 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.

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

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

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

404] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

413] 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.

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

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

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

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

418] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

433] 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.

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

435] 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.

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

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

438] 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

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

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

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

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

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

444] 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

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

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

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

448] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

449] 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

450] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

456] 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.

457] 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

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

459] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

467] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

481] 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.

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

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

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

485] 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

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

487] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

497] 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.

498] 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

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

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

501] 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

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

503] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

506] 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

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

508] 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

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

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

511] 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.

512] 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

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

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

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

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

517] 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

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

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

520] 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.”

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

522] 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

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

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

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

526] 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.”

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

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

529] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

537] 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

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

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

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

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

542] 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

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

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

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

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

547] 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.

548] 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)

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

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

551] 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.

552] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

554] 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)

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

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

557] 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

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

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

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

561] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

569] 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

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

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

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

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

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

575] 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)

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

577] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert

578] 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).

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

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

581] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

592] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

599] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense. Enrich Fromm.

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