Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

5] 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

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

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

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

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

10] 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]

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

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

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

14] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

21] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

22] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35] 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.

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

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

38] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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

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

50] 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.

51] 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

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

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

54] 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.

55] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

65] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

71] 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

72] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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

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

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

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

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

90] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

95] 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

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

97] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

112] 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.

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

114] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

122] 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

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

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

125] 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.

126] 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.

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

128] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

152] 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)

153] 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

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

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

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

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

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

159] 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.

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

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

162] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

171] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

181] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

190] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

191] 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.

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

193] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

200] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

211] 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

212] 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.

213] 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)

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

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

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

217] 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).

218] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

229] 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.

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

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

232] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend]. Ross Macdonald

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

242] 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.

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

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

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

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

247] 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.

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

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

250] 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.

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

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

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

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

255] 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.

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

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

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

259] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).

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

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

262] 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.

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

264] 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

265] 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

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

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

268] 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.

269] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

271] 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)

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

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

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

275] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit Mark Twain.

276] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

282] 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]

283] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

289] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

303] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

322] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).

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

324] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

348] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

354] 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)

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

356] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

362] 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.

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

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

365] 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).

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

367] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

375] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

382] 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

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

384] 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)

385] 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.

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

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

388] 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.

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

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

391] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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

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

399] 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.

400] 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

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

402] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Betrand Russel.

403] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

420] 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

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

422] 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)

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

424] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

433] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

437] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

442] 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.

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

444] 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.

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

446] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

452] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

463] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

471] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

472] 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.

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

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

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

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

477] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

487] 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.

488] 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

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

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

491] 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)

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

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

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

495] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

498] 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.

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

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] 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)

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

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

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

505] 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.

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

507] 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.

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

509] 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)

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

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

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

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

514] 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.

515] 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.

516] 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)

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

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

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

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

521] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

522] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

535] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

544] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

566] 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

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

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

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

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

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

572] 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.

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

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

575] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

587] 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)

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

589] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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