Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

19] 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.

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

21] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.

22] 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

23] 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.

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

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

26] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

32] 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

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

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

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

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

37] 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

38] 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

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

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

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

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

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

44] 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

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

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

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

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

49] 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.

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

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

52] 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)

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

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

55] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert .S. Lynd.

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

57] 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

58] 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.

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

60] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

67] 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

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

69] 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

70] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

84] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

91] 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.

92] 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)

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

94] 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.

95] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

103] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

109] 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

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

111] 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

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

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

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

115] 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.

116] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

124] 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

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

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

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

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

129] 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

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

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

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

133] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

141] 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.

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

143] 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

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

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

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

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

148] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

156] 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

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

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

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

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

161] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

179] 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.

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

181] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

192] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

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

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

201] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

208] 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.

209] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo.

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

211] 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.

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

213] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

223] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

235] 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.

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

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

238] 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.

239] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

245] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

246] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

252] 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

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

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

255] 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.

256] 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.

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

258] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

266] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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

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

295] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

306] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have Stewart Harrol

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

308] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

320] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

338] 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

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

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

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

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

343] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

350] 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.

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

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

353] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

367] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

374] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

381] 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)

382] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert .S. Lynd.

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

384] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

398] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

399] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

407] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

408] 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.

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

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

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

412] 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.

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

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

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

416] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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).

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

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

432] 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.”

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

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

435] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

437] 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

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

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

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

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

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

443] 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.

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

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

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

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

448] 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.

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

450] 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.

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

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

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

454] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

457] 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)

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

459] 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

460] 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.

461] 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

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

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

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

465] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegic.

466] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

477] 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.

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

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

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

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

482] 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)

483] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

491] 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

492] 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

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

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

495] 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.

496] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz .

497] 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

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

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

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

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

502] 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)

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

504] 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.

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

506] 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)

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

508] 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.

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

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

511] 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)

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

513] 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.

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

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

516] 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

517] 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

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

519] 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

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

521] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

527] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

541] 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.

542] 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)

543] 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)

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

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

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

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

548] 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.

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

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

551] 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

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

553] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.] Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]

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

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

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

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

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

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

560] 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.

561] 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

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

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

564] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

571] 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

572] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

586] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

593] 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)

594] 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)

595] 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.

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

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

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

599] 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.

600] 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