Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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

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

3] 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

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

5] 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.

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

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

8] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

35] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

36] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

45] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

49] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

66] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

74] 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

75] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

81] 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.

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

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

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

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

86] 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.

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

88] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

101] 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.

102] 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.

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

104] 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

105] 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.

106] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

120] 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)

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

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

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

124] 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.

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

126] 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

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

128] 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)

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

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

131] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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

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

141] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

148] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.

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

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

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

152] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

162] 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

163] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

169] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.] Oswald spengler

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

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

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

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

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

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

176] 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

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

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

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

180] 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

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

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

183] 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

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

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

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

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

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

189] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

191] 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.

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

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

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

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

196] 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.

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

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

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

200] 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.

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

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

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

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

205] 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

206] 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

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

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

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

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

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

212] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost.

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

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

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

216] 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)

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

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

219] 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

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

221] 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.

222] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

229] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

235] 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.

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

237] 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.

238] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

248] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. Joseph Statin

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

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

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

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

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

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

255] 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.

256] 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.

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

258] 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

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

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

261] 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.

262] 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

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

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

265] 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

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

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

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

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

270] 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).

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

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

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

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

275] 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

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

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

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

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

280] 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.

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

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

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

284] 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)

285] 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

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

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

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

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

290] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

300] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

308] 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

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

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

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

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

313] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

323] 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

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

325] 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.

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

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

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

329] 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)

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

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

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

333] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

346] 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).

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

348] 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.

349] 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)

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

351] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

360] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

375] 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.

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

377] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world. Richard Le Gallienne.

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

379] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

386] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard. M. Nixon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

396] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world. Richard Le Gallienne.

397] 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.

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

399] 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

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

401] 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.

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

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

404] 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.

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

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

407] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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

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

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

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

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

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

425] 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.

426] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

438] 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

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

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

441] 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.

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

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

444] 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)

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

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

447] 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)

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

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

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

451] 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.

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

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

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

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

456] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

481] 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

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

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

484] The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire (1694 -1778)

485] 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)

486] 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

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

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

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

490] 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.

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

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

493] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

503] 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.

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

505] 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)

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

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

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

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

510] 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]

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

512] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

526] 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.

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

528] 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

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

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

531] 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)

532] 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

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

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

535] 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.

536] 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

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

538] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

553] 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.

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

555] 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)

556] 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)

557] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

568] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

576] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

591] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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