Inspirational & famous Quotations

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

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

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

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

5] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28] 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

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

30] 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.

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

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

33] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41] 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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] 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.

55] 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.

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

57] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

66] 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

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

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

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

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

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

72] 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)

73] 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

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

75] 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)

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

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

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

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

80] 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 .

81] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

93] 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

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

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

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

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

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

99] Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

100] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

108] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

118] 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.

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

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

121] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

153] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

167] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

176] 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

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

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

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

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

181] 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)

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

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

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

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

186] 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.

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

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

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

190] 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.

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

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

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

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

195] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

202] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

210] 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.

211] 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)

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

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

214] 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)

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

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

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

218] 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.

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

220] 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)

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

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

223] 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.

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

225] 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.

226] 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)

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

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

229] 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.

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

231] 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.

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

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

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

235] 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.

236] 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.”

237] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

246] 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.

247] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

255] 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

256] 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.

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

258] 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

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

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

261] 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

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

263] 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.

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

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

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

267] Living is entirely too time- consuming Irne Peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

279] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

293] 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

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

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

296] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

307] 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.

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

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

310] 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

311] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.] Herbert. V. Prochnow

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

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

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

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

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

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

318] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

319] 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

320] 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

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

322] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)

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

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

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

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

327] 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.

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

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

330] 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

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

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

333] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. Thomas. R. Ybarra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

350] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

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

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

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

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

355] 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

356] 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.

357] 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

358] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)

359] 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.

360] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

367] 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.

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

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

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

371] 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)

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

373] 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.

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

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

376] 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

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

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

379] 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)

380] Covenants without swords are but words. Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

385] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf. Feodor Dostoevski

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

387] 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

388] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

405] 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.

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

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

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

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

410] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Jerome Lawrence

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

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

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

414] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

422] 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

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

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

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

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

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

428] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

445] 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

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

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

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

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

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

451] 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

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

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

454] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

463] 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

464] 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.

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

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

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

468] 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.

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

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

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

472] 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

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

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

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

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

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

478] 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.”

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

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

481] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

500] 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.

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

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

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

504] 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

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

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

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

508] 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)

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

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

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

512] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

519] 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.

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

521] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

530] We are tomorrow’s past. Marry Webb

531] 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

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

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

534] 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.

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

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

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

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

539] 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.

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

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

542] 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.

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

544] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H.L. Mencken.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

553] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

572] 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)

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

574] 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)

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

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

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

578] 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

588] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

599] 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

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