Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21] 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.

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

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

24] 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.

25] 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

26] 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

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

28] 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

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

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

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

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

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

34] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

60] 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

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

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

63] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

70] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

89] 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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

96] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

104] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born. A.P. Gouthey.

105] 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.

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

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

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

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

110] 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.

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

112] 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.

113] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers. Abraham Myerson

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

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

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

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

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

119] 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.

120] 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.

121] 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.

122] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

128] 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

136] 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

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

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

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

140] 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

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

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

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

144] 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

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

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

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

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

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

150] 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

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

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

153] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

159] 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

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

161] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twin.

162] 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.

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

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

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

166] 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.

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

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

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

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

171] 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

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

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

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

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

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

177] 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)

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

179] 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)

180] 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.

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

182] 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

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

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

185] Commonsense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

195] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

196] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

209] 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)

210] 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).

211] 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

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

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

214] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

227] 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

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

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

230] 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

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

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

233] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

246] 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.

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

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

249] 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.

250] 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.

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

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

253] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx.

254] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

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

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

259] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. Lin Yutang.

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

261] 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.

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

263] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

269] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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)

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

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

282] 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

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

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

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

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

287] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

294] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

305] 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

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

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

308] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

315] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

323] 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

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

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

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

327] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

332] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

338] 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.

339] 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

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

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

342] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

358] 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

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

360] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)

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

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

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

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

365] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson

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

367] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

374] 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.

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

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

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

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

379] 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.

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

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

382] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. Eddie Cantor

383] 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)

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

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

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

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

388] 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

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

390] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. Lin Yutang.

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

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

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

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

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

396] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

404] 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)

405] 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.

406] 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.

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

408] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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.

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

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

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

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

424] 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

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

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

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

428] 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

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

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

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

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

433] 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

434] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)

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

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

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

438] 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)

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

440] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

441] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

445] 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.

446] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

453] 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

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

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

456] 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).

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

458] 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.

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

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

461] 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

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

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

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

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

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

467] 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)

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

469] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

479] 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.

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

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

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

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

484] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External. Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)

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

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

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

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

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

490] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

498] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twin.

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

500] 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

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

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

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

504] 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.

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

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

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

508] 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

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

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

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

512] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External. Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)

513] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

540] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

552] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

559] 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

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

561] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers. Abraham Myerson

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

563] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

571] 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)

572] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

579] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

588] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

595] 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

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

597] 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.

598] 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.

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

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