Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

4] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

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

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

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

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

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

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

20] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

26] 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

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

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

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

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

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

32] 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

33] 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

34] 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

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

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

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

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

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

40] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

41] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

58] 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

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

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

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

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

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

64] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

66] 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

67] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

80] 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

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

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

83] 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.”

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

85] 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.

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

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

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

89] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

103] 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)

104] 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.

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

106] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

117] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense. Enrich Fromm.

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

119] 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)

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

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

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

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

124] 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

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

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

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

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

129] 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

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

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

132] 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.

133] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

147] 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

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

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

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

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

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

153] 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.

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

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

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

157] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort William James.

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

159] 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.

160] 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)

161] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

168] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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

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

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

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

181] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

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

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

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

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

203] 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)

204] 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)

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

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

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

208] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

216] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

224] 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

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

226] 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.

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

228] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

233] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

244] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

255] 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

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

257] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

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

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

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

261] 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

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

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

264] 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.

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

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

267] 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.

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

269] 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

270] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

277] 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

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

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

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

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

282] 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.

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

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

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

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

287] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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

294] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

301] 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

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

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

304] 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)

305] 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).

306] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

318] 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

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

320] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

334] 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.

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

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

337] 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

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

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

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

341] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body. Herbert Bayard Swope.

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

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

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

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

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

347] 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

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

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

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

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

352] 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

353] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

366] 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

367] 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.

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

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

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

371] 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)

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

373] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort William James.

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

375] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

388] 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

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

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

391] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

408] 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)

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

410] 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.

411] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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

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

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

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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

432] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

448] 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

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

450] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

459] 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.

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

461] 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.

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

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

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

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

466] 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.

467] 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.

468] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

486] 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.

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

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

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

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

491] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

499] 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

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

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

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

503] 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.

504] 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.

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

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

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

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

509] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

521] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

536] 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

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

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

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

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

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

542] 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.

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

549] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in . Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.

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

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

552] 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

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

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

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

556] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

562] 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

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

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

565] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

572] 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

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

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

575] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

581] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

596] 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.

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

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

599] 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]

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