Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

6] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

8] 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.

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

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

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

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

13] 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

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

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

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

17] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off Jenkin Lloynd Jones.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25] 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)

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

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

28] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37] 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

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

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

40] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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

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

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

51] 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.

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

53] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

60] 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.

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

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

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

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

65] 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.

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

67] 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)

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

69] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris.

70] 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)

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

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

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

74] 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

75] 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).

76] 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)

77] 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

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

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

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

81] 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)

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

83] 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.

84] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

97] 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.

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

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

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

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

102] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

116] 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.

117] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

123] 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

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

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

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

127] 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.

128] 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.

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

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

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

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

133] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

137] 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)

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

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

140] 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

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

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

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

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

145] 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

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

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

148] 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).

149] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

161] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

190] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

200] 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.

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

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

203] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

211] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

221] 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

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

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

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

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

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

227] 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)

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

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

230] 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

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

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

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

234] 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

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

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

237] 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.

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

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

240] 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

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

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

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

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

245] 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

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

247] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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.

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

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

257] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

282] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

289] 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

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

291] 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

292] 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)

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

294] 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.

295] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

305] 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.

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

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

308] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

317] 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.

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

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

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

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

322] 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

323] 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

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

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

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

327] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

334] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

353] 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

354] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

364] 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)

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

366] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

373] 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

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

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

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

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

378] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

379] 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.

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

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

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

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

384] 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.

385] 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.

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

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

388] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

394] 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

395] 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.

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

397] 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

398] 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

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

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

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

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

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

404] 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)

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

406] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

413] 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.

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

415] 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

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

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

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

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

420] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

439] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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.

452] 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

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

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

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

456] 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

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

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

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

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

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

462] 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

463] 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.

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

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

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

467] 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.

468] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

476] 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.

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

478] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

487] 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)

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

489] 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.

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

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

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

493] 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

494] 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.

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

496] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

499] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

506] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

523] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

527] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

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

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

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

531] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

543] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton.

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

545] 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.

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

547] 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)

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

549] 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

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

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

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

553] 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

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

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

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

557] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External. Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)

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

559] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

567] 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)

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

569] 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.

570] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

591] 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.

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

593] 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

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

595] 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

596] 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

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

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

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

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