Inspirational & famous Quotations

1] 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.

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

3] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

5] 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

6] 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)

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

8] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

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

10] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

17] 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

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

19] 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.

20] 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.

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

22] 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

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

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

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

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

27] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52] 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

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

54] 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.

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

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

57] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

64] 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.

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

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

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

68] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. William Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

84] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

92] 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.

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

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

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

96] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert

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

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

99] 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

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

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

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

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

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

105] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

116] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

124] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

137] 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.

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

139] 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.

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

141] 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

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

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

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

145] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

152] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

159] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

167] 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

168] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

178] 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

179] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

186] 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.

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

188] 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

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

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

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

192] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

203] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

207] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

208] 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.

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

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

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

212] 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.

213] 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

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

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

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

217] 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.

218] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

220] 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.

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

222] 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

223] 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.

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

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

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

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

228] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

235] 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.

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

237] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann. W. Von Goethe.

238] 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.

239] 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.

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

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

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

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

244] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother. Evan Esar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

254] 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.

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

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

257] 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

258] 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

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

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

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

262] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

270] 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)

271] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

272] 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

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

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

275] 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.

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

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

278] 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.

279] 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)

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

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

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

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

284] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort William James.

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] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort William James.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

299] 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

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

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

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

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

304] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr Robert. F. Kennedy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

312] 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)

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

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

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

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

317] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca

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

319] 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

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

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

322] 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 .

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

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

325] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thorean

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

327] 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.

328] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

343] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

354] 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

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

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

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

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

359] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother. Evan Esar

379] 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)

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

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

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

383] 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

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

385] 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

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

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

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

389] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

404] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Willian Jennings Bryan.

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

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

407] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

426] 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

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

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

429] 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.

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

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

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

433] 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.

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

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

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

437] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

446] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. William Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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

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

452] 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.

453] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

464] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

482] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

504] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

512] 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

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

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

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

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

517] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

523] 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.

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

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

526] 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.

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

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

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

530] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann. W. Von Goethe.

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

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

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

534] 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.”

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

536] 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).

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

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

539] 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.

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

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

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

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

544] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

548] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

554] 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.

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

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

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

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

559] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

571] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

579] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

587] 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.

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

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

590] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

598] 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)

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

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