Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

6] 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

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

8] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17] 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.

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

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

20] 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

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

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

23] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

30] 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

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

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

33] 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

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

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

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

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

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

39] 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]

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

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

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

43] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

75] 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

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

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

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

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

80] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

91] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

101] 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.

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

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

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

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

106] 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.

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

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

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

110] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.] Don Robinson.

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

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

113] 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)

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

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

116] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

127] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

133] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.] Don Robinson.

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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

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

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

142] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

149] 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.

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

151] 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

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

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

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

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

156] 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 .

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

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

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

160] 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.

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

162] 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

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

164] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

172] 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.

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

174] 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

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

176] 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.

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

178] 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.

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

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

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

182] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford.

183] 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.

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

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

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

187] 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

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

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

190] 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.

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

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

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

194] Commonsense is not so common.

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

196] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

203] 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.

204] 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)

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

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

207] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

224] 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

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

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

227] 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

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

229] 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.

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

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

232] 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)

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

234] 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)

235] 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)

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

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

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

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

240] 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)

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

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

243] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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

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

246] 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).

247] 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

248] 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.

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

250] 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.

251] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

267] 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.

268] 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

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

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

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

272] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

281] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

290] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

297] 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

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

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

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

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

302] 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.

303] 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

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

305] 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.

306] 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

307] 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.

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

309] 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

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

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

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

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

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

315] 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)

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

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

318] 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

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

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

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

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

323] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

328] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

338] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

347] 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.

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

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

350] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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)

359] 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.

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

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

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

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

364] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] 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

379] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

386] 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.

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

388] 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.

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

390] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

403] 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

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

405] 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

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

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

408] 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

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

410] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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

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

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

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

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

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

425] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford.

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

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

428] 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.

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

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

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

432] 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.

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

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

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

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

437] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

443] 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.

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

445] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

454] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

460] 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

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

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

463] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

478] 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

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

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

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

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

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

484] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

485] 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.

486] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

487] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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.

502] 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

503] 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

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

505] 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.

506] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

519] 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

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

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

522] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

536] 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.

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

538] 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

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

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

541] 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

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

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

544] 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.

545] 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

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

547] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

549] 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 .

550] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

561] 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)

562] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

573] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

574] 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

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

576] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

588] 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)

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

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

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

592] 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

593] 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.

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

595] 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)

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

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

598] 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.

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

600] 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