Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.

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

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

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

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

6] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15] 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.

16] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

29] 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.

30] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

32] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

38] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened. Winston Churchill

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

40] 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.

41] 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.

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

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

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

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

46] 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.

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

48] 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.

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

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

51] 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)

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

53] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62] 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

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

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

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

66] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

73] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

82] 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)

83] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. P.W. Bridgman

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

85] 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.

86] 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

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

88] 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.

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

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

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

92] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power. Seneca

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

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

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

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

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

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

99] 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.

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

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

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

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

104] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races. Mark Twain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

112] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment Dorothy Nevill.

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

114] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

128] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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

136] 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

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

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

139] 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

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

141] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

161] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

167] 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.

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

169] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

186] 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.

187] 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.

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

189] 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)

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

191] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

205] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

208] 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.

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

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

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

212] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

216] 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)

217] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

236] 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.

237] Commonsense is not so common.

238] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

244] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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.

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

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

257] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] 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

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

272] 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)

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

274] 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.

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

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

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

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

279] 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

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

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

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

283] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

298] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

306] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

309] 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

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

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

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

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

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

315] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

321] 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.

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

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

324] 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

325] 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

326] 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

327] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

336] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

343] 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

344] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power. Seneca

345] 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

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

347] 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.

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

349] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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.

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

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

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

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

363] 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

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

365] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

372] 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.

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

374] 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

375] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

382] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

395] 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

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

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

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

399] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

410] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

438] 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.

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

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

441] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

448] 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.

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

450] 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

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

452] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

459] 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

460] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

473] 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

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

475] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

484] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

492] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old. John Ciaraci.

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

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

495] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

504] 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.

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

506] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

514] 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.

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

516] 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

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

518] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

520] 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)

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

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

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

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

525] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)

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

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

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

529] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

535] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”

536] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

538] 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.

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

540] 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

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

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

543] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism. Preserved Smith.

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

545] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

554] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

565] 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)

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

567] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

574] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

582] 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.

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

584] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

598] 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.

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

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