Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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)

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

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

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

7] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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

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

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

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

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

19] 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

20] 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.

21] 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)

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

23] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31] 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.

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

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

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

35] 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

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

37] 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.

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

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

40] 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

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

42] 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)

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

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

45] 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)

46] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

52] 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

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

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

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

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

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

58] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

59] 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.

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

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

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

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

64] 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

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

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

67] 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.

68] 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

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

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

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

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

73] 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

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

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

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

77] 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

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

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

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

81] Commonsense is not so common.

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

83] 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

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

85] 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

86] 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

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

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

89] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

93] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

105] Commonsense is not so common.

106] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

114] 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.

115] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

127] 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.

128] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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

136] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

143] 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)

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

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

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

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

148] 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

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

150] 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

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

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

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

154] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

166] 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

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

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

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

170] 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

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

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

173] 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.

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

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

176] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

177] 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

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

179] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

187] 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

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

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

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

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

192] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

200] 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.

201] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

207] 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.

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

209] 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

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

211] 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

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

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

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

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

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

217] 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.

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

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

220] 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

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

222] 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

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

224] 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

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

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

227] 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.

228] 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

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

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

231] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

238] 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

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

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

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

247] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

256] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

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

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

273] 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.

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

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

276] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

286] 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.

287] 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.

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

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

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

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

292] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

300] 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.

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

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

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

304] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)

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

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

307] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

331] 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.

332] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

342] 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.”

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

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

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

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

347] 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.

348] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

359] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!. Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

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

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

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

365] 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.

366] 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.

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

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

369] 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

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

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

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

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

374] 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.

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

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

377] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one] Jdscha Heifetz

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

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

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

381] 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

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

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

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

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

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

387] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

389] 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

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

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

392] 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

393] 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.

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

395] 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

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

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

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

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

400] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

425] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

436] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

439] 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

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

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

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

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

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

445] 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.

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

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

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

449] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

455] 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

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

457] 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.

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

459] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

465] 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

466] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

476] 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

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

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

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

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

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

482] 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

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

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

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

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

487] 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.

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

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

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

491] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

500] 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

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

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

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

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

505] 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.

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

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

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

509] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

512] 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.

513] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

532] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits. S.N. Behrman.

533] 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

534] 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.

535] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

541] 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).

542] 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

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

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

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

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

547] 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.

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

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

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

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

552] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

567] 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

568] 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.

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

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

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

572] 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

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

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

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

576] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

585] 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.

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

587] 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.

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

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

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

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

592] 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.

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

594] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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