Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

2] 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

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

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

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

6] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

12] 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.

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

14] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

20] 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)

21] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire

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

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

24] 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)

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

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

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

28] 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.

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

30] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38] 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

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

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

41] The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

48] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

58] 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.

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

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

61] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

69] 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.

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

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

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

73] 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

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

75] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85] 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.

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

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

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

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

90] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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

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

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

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

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

96] 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

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

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

99] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

107] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. Charles Towne.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

120] 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.

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

122] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

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

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

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

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

127] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool. Ambrose pratt.

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

129] 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

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

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

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

133] 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

134] 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

135] 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)

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

137] 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

138] 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.

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

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

141] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

154] 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)

155] 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)

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

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

158] 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

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

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

161] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain.

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

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

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

165] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. Gertrude Stein.

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

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

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

169] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)

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

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

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

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

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

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

176] 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.

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

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

179] 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

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

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

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

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

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

185] 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

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

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

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

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

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

191] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

198] 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

199] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde.

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

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

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

203] 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

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

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

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

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

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

209] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

218] 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.

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

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

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

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

223] 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.

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

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

226] 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

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

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

229] 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.

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

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

232] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

239] 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

240] 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).

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

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

243] 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

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

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

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

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

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

249] 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.”

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

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

252] 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

253] 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.

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

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

256] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

272] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly. Mao Tse – tung

273] 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.

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

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

276] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency.

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

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

279] 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.

280] 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

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

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

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

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

285] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

291] Commonsense is not so common.

292] 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

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

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

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

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

297] 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.

298] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

306] 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.

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

308] 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.

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

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

311] 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.

312] 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

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

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

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

316] 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.

317] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

324] Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov

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

326] 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

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

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

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

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

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

332] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

354] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

357] 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

358] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

378] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles .M . Schulz.

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

380] 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.

381] 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

394] 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)

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

396] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

405] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

411] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

419] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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] 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)

431] 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

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

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

434] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. Charles Towne.

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

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

437] 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.

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

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

440] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

467] 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.

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

469] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

470] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

477] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

487] 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.

488] 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

489] 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]

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

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

492] 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.

493] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

501] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

509] 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

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

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

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

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

514] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

526] 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.

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

528] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

529] 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

530] 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.

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

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

533] 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

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

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

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

537] 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.

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

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

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

541] 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.

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

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

544] 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.

545] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

558] 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

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

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

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

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

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

564] 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.”

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

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

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

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

569] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

580] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

581] 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)

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

583] 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

584] 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.

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

586] 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

587] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

595] 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.

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

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

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

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

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