Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

4] 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.

5] 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.

6] 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

7] 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)

8] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18] 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.

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

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

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

22] 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)

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

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

25] 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.

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

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

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

29] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits. S.N. Behrman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

36] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

44] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx.

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

46] 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.

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

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

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

50] 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).

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

52] 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)

53] 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.

54] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

61] 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

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

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

64] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. Roger Allen.

65] 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.

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

67] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

75] 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

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

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

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

79] 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.

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

81] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

94] 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)

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

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

97] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

105] 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

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

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

108] 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.

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

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

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

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

113] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

121] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

130] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

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

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

142] 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.

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

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

145] 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)

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

147] 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.

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

149] 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

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

151] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

162] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

170] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

188] 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.

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

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

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

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

193] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

201] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

211] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegic.

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

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

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

215] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

221] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

231] 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

232] 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

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

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

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

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

237] 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.

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

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

240] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

248] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

259] 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

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

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

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

263] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] 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

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

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

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

274] 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

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

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

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

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

279] 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.

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

281] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

288] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

297] 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.

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

299] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

311] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

317] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

335] 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 .

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

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

338] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)

339] 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

340] 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.

341] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

347] 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.

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

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

350] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

359] 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

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

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

362] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

369] 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.

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

371] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

374] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

382] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

388] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits. S.N. Behrman.

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

390] 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)

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

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

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

394] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

401] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

431] 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

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

433] 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

434] 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.

435] 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

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

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

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

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

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

441] 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

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

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

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

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

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

447] 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.

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

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

450] 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

451] 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.

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

453] 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

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

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

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

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

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

459] 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

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

462] 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

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

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

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

466] 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

467] 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)

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

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

470] 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)

471] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

474] 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

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

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

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

478] 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.

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

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

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

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

483] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

496] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx.

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

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

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

500] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

506] 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

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

508] 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

509] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

517] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. Voltaire.

518] 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

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

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

521] 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.

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

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

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

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

526] 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.

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

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

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

530] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

536] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

542] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

543] 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.”

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

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

546] 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.

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

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

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

550] 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.

551] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

559] 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.

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

561] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

567] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

577] 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)

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

579] 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

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

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

582] 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 .

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

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

585] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Will Rogres.

586] 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

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

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

589] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

595] 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.

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

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

598] 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.

599] 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

600] 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.