Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

2] 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.

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

4] 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

5] 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

6] 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.

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

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

9] 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

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

11] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

18] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

36] 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

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

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

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

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

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

42] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

58] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70] 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

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

72] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

78] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

94] 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

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

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

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

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

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

100] 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.

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

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

103] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

110] 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

111] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

119] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

131] 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

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

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

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

135] 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.

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

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

138] 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)

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

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

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

142] 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

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

144] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

151] 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

152] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

162] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. Thomas. R. Ybarra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

175] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

182] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

203] 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.

204] 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.

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

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

207] 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

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

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

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

211] 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.

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

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

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

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

216] 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.

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

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

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

220] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

229] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. Harry .S. Truman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

236] 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

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

238] 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.

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

240] 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)

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

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

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

245] 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

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

247] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

255] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

261] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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.

280] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

291] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

300] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

318] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

324] 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)

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

326] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

333] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

341] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

350] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

352] 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

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

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

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

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

357] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

369] 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.

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

371] 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.

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

373] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

376] 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

377] 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.

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

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

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

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

382] 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

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

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

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

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

387] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

398] 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

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

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

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

402] 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

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

404] 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.

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

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

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

408] 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)

409] 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

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

411] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)

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

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

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

415] 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.

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

417] 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

418] 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.

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

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

421] 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)

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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

433] 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

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

435] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

442] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

450] 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

451] 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

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

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

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

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

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

457] 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

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

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

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

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

462] 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)

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

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

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

466] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

472] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

478] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

486] 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.”

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

488] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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

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

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

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

505] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

516] 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

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

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

519] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] 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.

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

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

535] 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

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

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

538] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts. John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).

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

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

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

542] 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.

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

544] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

550] 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

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

552] 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.

553] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

570] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head. Randolph Bourne.

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

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

573] 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

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

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

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

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

578] 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

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

580] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives. William James.

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

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

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

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

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

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

587] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

597] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

598] 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)

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

600] 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