Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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.

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

5] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory I

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

25] 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.

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

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

28] 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

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

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

31] 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.

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

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

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

35] 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

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

37] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother. Evan Esar

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

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

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

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

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

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

55] 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.

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

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

58] 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

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

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

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

62] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

78] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

79] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

99] 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.

100] 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.

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

102] 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)

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

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

105] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

123] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

143] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

149] 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.

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

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

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

153] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

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

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

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

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

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

159] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

186] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

195] 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

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

197] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

206] 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.

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

208] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory I

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

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

211] 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)

212] 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

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

214] 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

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

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

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

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

219] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

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

222] 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

223] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security. A.P. Gouthey

224] 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)

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

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

227] 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.

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

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

230] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

237] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

239] 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

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

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

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

243] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

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

245] 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.

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

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

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

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

250] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

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

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

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

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

257] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Willian Jennings Bryan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

283] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

286] 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.

287] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

296] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

302] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum Erich Fromm.

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

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

305] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

322] 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

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

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

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

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

327] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged. Bertrand Russel.

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

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

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

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

332] 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

333] 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.

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

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

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

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

338] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

344] 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.

345] 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.

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

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

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

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

350] 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)

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

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

353] 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)

354] 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.

355] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

364] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

372] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

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

376] 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.

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

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

379] 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.

380] 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)

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

382] 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

383] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken

384] 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.

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

386] 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.

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

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

389] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

405] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

412] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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.

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

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

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

433] 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

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

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

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

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

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

439] 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

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

441] 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

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

443] 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)

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

445] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one] Jdscha Heifetz

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

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

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

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

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

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

452] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

460] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

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

462] 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.

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

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

465] 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.

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

467] 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)

468] 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)

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

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

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

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

473] 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.

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

475] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one] Jdscha Heifetz

476] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

477] 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.

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

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

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

481] 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.

482] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken

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

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

485] 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

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

487] 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.

488] 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.

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

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

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

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

493] 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.

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

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

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

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

498] 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)

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

500] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

506] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

513] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

523] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

534] 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

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

536] 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

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

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

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

540] 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.

541] 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.

542] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

548] 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]

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

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

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

552] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

566] 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)

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

568] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

580] 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.

581] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

591] 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

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

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

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

595] 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

596] 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)

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

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

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

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