Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

6] 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

7] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

39] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

51] 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.

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

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

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

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

56] 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

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

58] 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.

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

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

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

62] 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.

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

64] 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.

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

66] 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

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

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

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

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

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

72] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. Max Born.

73] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

83] 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

84] 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)

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

86] 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)

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

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

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

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

91] 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

92] 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

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

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

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

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

97] 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.

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

99] 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)

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

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

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

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

104] 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.

105] 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

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

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

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

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

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

111] 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)

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

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

114] 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)

115] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

123] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head. Randolph Bourne.

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

125] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

132] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

155] 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

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

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

158] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

159] 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)

160] 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

161] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives. William James.

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

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

164] 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

165] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

171] 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

172] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

184] 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.

185] 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)

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

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

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

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

190] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

197] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

207] 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

208] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

217] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

225] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)

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

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

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

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

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

231] Commonsense is not so common.

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

233] 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.

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

235] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

240] 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]

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

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

243] 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

244] 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.

245] 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.

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

247] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

256] 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

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

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

259] 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.

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

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

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

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

264] 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.

265] 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)

266] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

272] 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)

273] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

280] 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.

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

282] 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.

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

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

285] 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)

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

287] 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

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

289] 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.

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

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

292] To be like Christ is to be a Christian William Penn (1644-1718)

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

294] 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.

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

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

297] 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.

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

299] 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

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

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

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

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

304] 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

305] 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.

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

307] 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.

308] 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

309] 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.

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

311] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

319] 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

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

321] 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.

322] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives. William James.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

332] 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

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

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

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

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

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

338] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

354] 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.

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

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

357] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

364] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann. W. Von Goethe.

365] 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).

366] 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

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

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

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

370] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

383] 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

384] 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

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

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

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

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

389] 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.

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

391] 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

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

393] 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

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

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

396] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

407] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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.

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

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

417] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head. Randolph Bourne.

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

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

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

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

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

423] 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.

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

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

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

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

428] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

441] 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

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

443] 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

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

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

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

447] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

455] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

464] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

474] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

488] 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

489] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

502] 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)

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

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

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

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

507] 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.

508] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

517] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

523] 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.

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

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

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

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

528] 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

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

530] 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.

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

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

533] 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.

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

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

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

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

538] 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.

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

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

541] 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

542] To be like Christ is to be a Christian William Penn (1644-1718)

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

544] 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)

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

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

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

548] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

558] 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.

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

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

561] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

580] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism. Preserved Smith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

596] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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