Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

2] 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

3] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

24] 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.

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

26] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38] 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.

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

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

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

42] 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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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.

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

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

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

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

53] 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)

54] 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.

55] 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

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

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

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

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

60] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

71] 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

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

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

74] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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.

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

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

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

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

90] 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)

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

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

93] 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.

94] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

103] 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.

104] 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)

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

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

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

108] 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)

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

110] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid. Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

124] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

132] 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)

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

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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

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

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

142] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

150] 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

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

152] 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.

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

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

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

156] 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)

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

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

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

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

161] 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

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

163] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

169] 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

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

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

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

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

174] 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.

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

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

177] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

184] 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.

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

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

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

188] 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

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

190] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] 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

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

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

213] 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

214] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

221] 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.

222] 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.

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

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

225] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

237] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

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

248] 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

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

250] 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

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

252] 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

253] 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)

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

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

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

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

258] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

263] 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)

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

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

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

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

268] 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.

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

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

271] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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.

280] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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.

294] 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

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

296] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

302] 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.

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

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

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

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

307] 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.

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

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

310] 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.

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

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

313] 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.

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

315] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

335] 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

336] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

342] 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

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

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

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

346] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

355] 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

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

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

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

359] 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

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

361] 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

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

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

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

365] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

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

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

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

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

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

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

372] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing

373] 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.

374] 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.”

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

376] 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.

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

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

379] 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

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

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

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

383] 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)

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

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

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

387] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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

398] 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 .

399] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

411] 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)

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

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

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

415] 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)

416] 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)

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

418] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

423] 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

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

425] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

431] 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.

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

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

434] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

440] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

460] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

467] 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)

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

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

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

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

472] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

481] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

497] 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

498] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

502] 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.

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

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

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

506] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

514] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

521] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it. Herbert V. Prochnow.

522] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

533] 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

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

535] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

545] 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

546] 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)

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

548] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

585] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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