Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

5] 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

6] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16] 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

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

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

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

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

21] 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.

22] 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.

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

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

25] 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

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

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

28] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38] 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.

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

40] 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.

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

42] 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.

43] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)

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

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

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

47] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

56] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

62] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

90] 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.

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

92] 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.

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

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

95] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

102] 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)

103] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

122] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

123] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

135] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

156] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

162] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow. William Lyon Phelps.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

173] 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.

174] 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

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

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

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

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

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

180] 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]

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

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

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

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

185] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave Pope Pius – X1

186] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

202] 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.

203] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

216] 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)

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

218] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

226] 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).

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

228] 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.

229] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

238] 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)

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

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

241] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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

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

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

257] 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.

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

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

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

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

262] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

271] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized] Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)

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

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

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

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

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

277] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

290] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

300] 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

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

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

303] 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.

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

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

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

307] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

314] 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.

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

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

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

318] 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.

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

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

321] 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

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

323] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

329] 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

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

331] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized] Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)

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

333] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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

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

360] 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.

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

362] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

370] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

379] 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.

380] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

389] 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

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

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

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

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

394] 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.

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

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

397] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

404] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

411] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave Pope Pius – X1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

424] 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)

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

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

427] 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

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

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

430] 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.

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

432] 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.

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

434] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

435] 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

436] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything. Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

448] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein

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

450] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

465] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

472] 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.

473] 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)

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

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

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

477] 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.

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

479] 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)

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

481] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

488] 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

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

490] The future influences the present just as much as the past. Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).

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

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

493] 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)

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

495] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old. John Ciaraci.

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

497] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

499] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

500] 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)

501] 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.

502] 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)

503] 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

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

505] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow. William Lyon Phelps.

506] 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.

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

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

509] 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

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

511] 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)

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

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

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

515] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

525] 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.

526] 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

527] 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.

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

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

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

531] 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.

532] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security. A.P. Gouthey

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

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

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

536] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

542] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

548] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

555] 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.

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

557] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

565] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

573] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

588] 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

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

590] 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.

591] 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.

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

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

594] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

600] 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