Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20] 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

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

22] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41] 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.

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

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

44] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

50] 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

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

52] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

64] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

74] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have Stewart Harrol

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

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

77] 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.

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

79] 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.

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

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

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

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

84] 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)

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

86] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

95] 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.

96] 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

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

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

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

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

101] 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)

102] 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

103] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

115] 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

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

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

118] 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.

119] 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

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

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

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

123] 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.

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

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

126] 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

127] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

147] 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.

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

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

150] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

156] 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.

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

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

159] 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.

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

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

162] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

174] 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.

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

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

177] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

189] 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)

190] 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.

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

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

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

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

195] 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.

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

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

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

199] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

202] 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.

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

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

205] 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.

206] 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.

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

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

209] 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

210] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

225] 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

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

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

228] 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

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

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

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

232] 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

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

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

235] 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

236] 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)

237] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

247] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

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

253] 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.

254] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

261] 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)

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

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

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

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

266] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

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

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

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

270] 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.

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

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

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

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

275] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

288] 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

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

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

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

292] 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.

293] 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

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

295] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

304] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

313] 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

314] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

322] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.] Don Robinson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

336] 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

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

338] 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.

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

340] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

348] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

349] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

364] 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 .

365] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

381] 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

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

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

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

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

386] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

392] 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.

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

394] 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

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

396] 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.

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

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

399] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

414] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

425] 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)

426] 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 .

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

428] 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.

429] 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)

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

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

432] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

440] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

447] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

456] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life. Sigmund frued.

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

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

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

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

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

462] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

463] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

466] 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)

467] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

473] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

485] 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)

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

487] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.] Don Robinson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

494] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

504] 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

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

506] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

529] 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)

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

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

532] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

541] 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

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

543] 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.

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

545] 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.

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

547] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

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

549] 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)

550] 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

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

552] 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.

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

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

555] 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.

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

557] 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.

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

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

560] 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.

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

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

563] 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.

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

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

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

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

568] 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

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

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

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

572] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement. Eric Hoffer.

573] 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.

574] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Kovzy bski

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

576] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.] Richard Armour

577] 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.

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

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

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

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

582] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

590] 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

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

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

593] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

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

595] 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.

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

597] 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.

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

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

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