Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

5] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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.

15] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost

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

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

18] 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.

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

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

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

22] 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)

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

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

25] 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)

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

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

28] 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.

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

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

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

32] 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.

33] 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.

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

35] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

51] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73] 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.

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

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

76] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

82] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

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

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

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

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

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

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

89] 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

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

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

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

93] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

99] 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)

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

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

102] 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

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

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

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

106] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

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

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

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

110] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave Pope Pius – X1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

136] 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

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

138] 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

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

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

141] 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.

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

143] 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 .

144] 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.

145] 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

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

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

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

149] 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

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

151] 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

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

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

154] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha Robert Heincein

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

156] 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

157] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

163] 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.

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

165] 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

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

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

168] 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

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

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

171] 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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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

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

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

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

181] 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.

182] 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)

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

184] 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

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

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

187] 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

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

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

190] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha Robert Heincein

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

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

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

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

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

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

197] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

208] 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

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

210] 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

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

212] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

220] 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

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

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

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

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

225] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

232] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

247] 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.

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

249] 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.

250] 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)

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

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

253] 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

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

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

256] 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

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

258] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

265] 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.

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

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

268] 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

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

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

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

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

273] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

280] 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.

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

282] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

289] 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

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

291] 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.

292] 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.

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

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

295] 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

296] 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.

297] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow. William Lyon Phelps.

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

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

300] 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.

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

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

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

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

305] 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

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

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

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

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

310] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

324] 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)

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

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

327] 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.

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

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

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

331] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow. William Lyon Phelps.

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

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

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

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

336] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buck minister Fuller

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

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

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

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

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

342] 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

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

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

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

346] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

375] 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

376] 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.

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

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

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

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

381] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

390] 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 .

391] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury. Norman Cousins.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

413] 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.

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

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

416] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

425] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

439] 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)

440] 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.

441] 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

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

443] 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

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

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

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

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

448] 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)

449] 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

450] 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

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

452] 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.

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

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

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

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

457] 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)

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

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

460] 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

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

462] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

472] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

483] 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)

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

485] 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

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

487] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

494] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

505] 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

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

507] 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.

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

509] 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.

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

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

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

513] 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.

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

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

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

517] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

524] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury. Norman Cousins.

525] 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.

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

527] 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

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

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

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

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

532] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

536] 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.

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

538] 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.

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

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

541] 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.

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

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

544] 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

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

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

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

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

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

550] 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.”

551] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

557] 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

558] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

567] 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)

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

569] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

576] 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.

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

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

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

580] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

597] 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.

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

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

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