Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

3] 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.

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

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

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

7] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris.

8] 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.

9] 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.

10] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of Richard. M. Nixon

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

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

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

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

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

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

17] 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.

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

19] 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.

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

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

22] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

29] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38] 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

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

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

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

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

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

44] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

67] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

73] 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

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

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

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

77] 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

78] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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 .

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

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

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

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

90] 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.

91] 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.

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

93] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

107] 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.

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

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

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

111] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

113] 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.

114] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

131] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

139] 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.

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

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

142] 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

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

144] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.] Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

161] 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.

162] 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.

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

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

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

166] 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

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

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

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

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

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

172] 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.

173] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

184] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

191] 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)

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

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

194] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own. Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)

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

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

213] 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

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

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

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

217] 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.

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

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

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

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

222] 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

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

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

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

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

227] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

242] 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.

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

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

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

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

247] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

258] 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.

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

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

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

262] 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.

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

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

265] 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)

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

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

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

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

270] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

276] 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.

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

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

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

280] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

290] 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 .

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

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

293] 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

294] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

304] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

314] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

329] 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

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

331] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

334] 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

335] 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.

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

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

338] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

347] 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

348] 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)

349] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

356] 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.

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

358] 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).

359] 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.

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

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

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

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

364] 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.”

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

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

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

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

369] 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)

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

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

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

373] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

392] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

400] 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.

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

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

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

404] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

411] 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

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

413] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

422] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Boh

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

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

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

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

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

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

429] 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.

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

431] 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.

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

433] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

444] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

454] 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.

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

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

457] 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

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

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

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

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

462] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

463] 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)

464] 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.

465] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.] J. Edgar Hoover

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

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

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

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

470] 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

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

472] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

476] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

485] 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)

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

487] 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.

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

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

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

491] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

504] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. Horold Nicholson.

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

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

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

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

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

510] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

522] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

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

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

526] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

533] 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)

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

535] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

542] 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.”

543] 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.

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

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

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

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

548] 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.

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

550] 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

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

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

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

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

555] 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.

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

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

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

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

560] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

566] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

574] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

586] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

596] 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

597] 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.

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

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

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