Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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

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

3] 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.

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

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

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

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

8] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16] 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

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

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

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

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

21] 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

22] 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.

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

24] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

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

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

27] 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

28] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

35] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

64] 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.

65] 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.

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

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

68] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

76] 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.

77] 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

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

79] 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

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

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

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

83] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ? Sigmund Freud.

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

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

86] 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.

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

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

89] 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.

90] 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

91] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

98] 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

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

100] 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.

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

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

103] 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)

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

105] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

115] 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]

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

117] 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).

118] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

128] 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.

129] 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

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

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

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

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

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

135] 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)

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

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

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

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

140] 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.

141] 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.

142] 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

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

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

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

146] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

168] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

175] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

185] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

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

187] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

208] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

214] 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.

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

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

217] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

225] 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.

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

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

228] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one] Jdscha Heifetz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

240] 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.

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

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

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

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

245] 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.

246] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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)

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

256] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

263] 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.

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

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

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

267] 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

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

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

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

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

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

273] 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

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

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

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

277] 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.

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

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

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

281] 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)

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

283] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

300] 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.

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

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

303] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

306] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

314] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory I

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

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

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

318] 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.

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

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

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

322] 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

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

324] 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

325] 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.”

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

327] 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.

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

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

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

331] 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]

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

333] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

345] 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)

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

347] 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.

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

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

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

351] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

360] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

371] 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

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

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

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

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

376] 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.

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

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

379] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

383] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

389] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

407] 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.

408] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

426] 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

427] 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.

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

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

430] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it. Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)

431] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

440] 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.

441] 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)

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

443] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

452] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

460] 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.

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

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

463] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress Booker. T. Washington.

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

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

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

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

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

469] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

479] 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.

480] 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)

481] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

487] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine.

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

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

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

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

492] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

500] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

517] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

544] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

551] 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

552] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless. B.F. Skinner

553] 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.

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

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

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

557] 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 .

558] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

570] 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.

571] 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.

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

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

574] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

591] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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