Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

6] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

27] 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

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

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

30] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

32] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid. Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)

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

34] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

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

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

45] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

58] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

69] 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.

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

71] 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)

72] 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.

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

74] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

76] 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.

77] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

92] 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

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

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

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

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

97] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

118] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

125] 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.

126] 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

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

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

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

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

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

132] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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

140] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

147] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

165] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

178] 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.

179] 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.

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

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

182] 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

183] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

191] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

200] 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.

201] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

203] 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

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

205] 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.

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

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

208] 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

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

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

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

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

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

214] 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

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

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

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

218] 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.

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

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

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

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

223] 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.

224] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

235] 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

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

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

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

239] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

249] 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.

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

251] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

271] 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

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

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

274] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

281] 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.

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

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

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

285] 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

286] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid. Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)

287] 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.

288] 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

289] 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.

290] 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.

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

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

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

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

295] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

304] 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

305] 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.

306] 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.

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

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

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

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

311] 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.

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

313] 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.

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

315] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

326] 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

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

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

329] 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

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

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

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

333] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

343] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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.

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

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

361] 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

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

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

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

365] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

368] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

370] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

371] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

385] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

397] 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.

398] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

406] 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

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

408] 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.

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

410] 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.

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

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

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

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

415] 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)

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

417] 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.

418] 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

419] 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.

420] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

426] 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)

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

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

429] 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.

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

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

432] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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)

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

453] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)

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

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

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

457] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

465] 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

466] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

488] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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.

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

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

504] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

513] 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

514] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

520] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

527] 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)

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

529] 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

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

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

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

533] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

544] 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

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

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

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

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

549] 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)

550] 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

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

552] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

562] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

569] 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

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

571] 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.

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

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

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

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

576] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

590] 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)

591] Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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