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1] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
2] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
3] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
4] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
5] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
6] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
7] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
8] 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.
9] 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)
10] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
11] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
12] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
13] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
14] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
15] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
16] 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.
17] 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
18] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
19] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
20] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
21] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
22] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
23] 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)
24] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
25] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
26] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
27] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
28] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
29] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
30] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
31] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
32] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
33] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
34] 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.
35] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
36] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
37] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
38] 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.
39] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
40] 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.
41] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
42] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
43] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
44] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
45] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
46] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
47] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
48] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
49] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
50] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
51] 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.
52] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
53] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
55] 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.
56] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
57] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
58] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
59] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
60] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
61] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
62] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
63] 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.
64] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
65] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
66] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
67] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
68] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
69] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
70] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
71] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
72] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
73] 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.
74] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
75] 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.
76] 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.
77] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
78] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
79] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
80] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
81] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
82] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
83] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
84] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
85] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
86] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
87] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
88] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
89] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
90] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
91] 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
92] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
93] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
94] 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)
95] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
96] 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
97] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
98] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
99] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
100] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
101] 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
102] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
103] 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)
104] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
105] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
106] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
107] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
108] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
109] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
110] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
111] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
112] 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
113] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
114] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
115] 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 .
116] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
117] 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)
118] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
119] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
120] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
121] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
122] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
123] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
124] 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)
125] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
126] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
127] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
128] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
129] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
130] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
131] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
132] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
133] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
134] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
135] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
136] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
137] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
138] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
139] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
140] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
141] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
142] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
143] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
144] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
145] 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.
146] 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)
147] 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.
148] 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.
149] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
150] 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.
151] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
152] 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)
153] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
154] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
155] 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
156] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
157] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
158] 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
159] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
160] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
161] 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)
162] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
163] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
164] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
165] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
166] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
167] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
168] 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
169] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
170] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
171] 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
172] 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
173] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
174] 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.
175] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
176] 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.
177] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
178] 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
179] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
180] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
181] 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
182] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
183] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
184] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
185] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
186] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
187] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
188] 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
189] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
190] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
191] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
192] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
193] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
194] 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
195] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
196] 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
197] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
198] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
199] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
200] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
201] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
202] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
203] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
204] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
205] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
206] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
207] 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.
208] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
209] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
210] 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.
211] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
212] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
213] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
214] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
215] 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
216] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
217] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
218] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
219] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
220] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
221] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
222] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
223] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
224] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
225] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
226] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
227] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
228] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
229] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
230] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
231] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
232] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
233] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
234] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
235] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
236] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
237] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
238] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
239] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
240] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
241] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
242] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
243] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
244] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
245] 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
246] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
247] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
248] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
249] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
250] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
251] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
252] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
253] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
254] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
255] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
256] 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
257] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
258] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
259] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
260] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
261] 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.
262] 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)
263] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
264] 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
265] 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
266] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
267] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
268] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
269] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
270] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
271] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
272] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
273] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
274] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
275] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
276] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
277] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
278] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
279] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
280] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
281] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
282] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
283] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
284] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
285] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
286] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
287] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
288] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
289] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
290] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
291] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
292] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
293] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
294] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
295] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
296] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
297] 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.
298] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
299] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
300] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
301] 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
302] 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.
303] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
304] 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.
305] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
306] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
307] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
308] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
309] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
310] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
311] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
312] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
313] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
314] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
315] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
316] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
317] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
318] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
319] 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.
320] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
321] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
322] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
323] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
324] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
325] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
326] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
327] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
328] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
329] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
330] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
331] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
332] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
333] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
334] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
335] 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.
336] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
337] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
338] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
339] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
340] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
341] 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.
342] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
343] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
344] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
345] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
346] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
347] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
348] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
349] 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.
350] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
351] 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
352] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
353] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
354] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
355] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
356] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
357] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
358] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
359] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
360] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
361] 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]
362] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
363] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
364] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
365] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
366] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
367] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
368] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
369] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
370] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
371] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
372] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
373] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
374] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
375] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
376] 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.
377] 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)
378] 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)
379] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
380] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
381] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
382] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
383] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
384] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
385] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
386] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
387] 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.
388] 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.
389] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
390] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
391] 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
392] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
393] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
394] 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.
395] 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
396] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
397] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
398] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
399] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
400] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
401] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
402] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
403] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
404] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
405] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
406] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
407] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
408] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
409] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
410] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
411] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
412] 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
413] 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.
414] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
415] 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).
416] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
417] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
418] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
419] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
420] 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.
421] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
422] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
423] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
424] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
425] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
426] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
427] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
428] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
429] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
430] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
431] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
432] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
433] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
434] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
435] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
436] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
437] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
438] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
439] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
440] 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
441] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
442] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
443] 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
444] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
445] 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
446] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
447] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
448] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
449] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
450] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
451] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
452] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
453] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
454] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
455] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
456] 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.
457] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
458] 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.
459] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
460] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
461] 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
462] 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
463] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
464] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
465] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
466] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
467] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
468] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
469] 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.
470] 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
471] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
472] 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
473] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
474] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
475] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
476] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
477] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
478] 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)
479] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
480] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
481] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
482] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
483] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
484] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
485] 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.
486] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
487] 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.
488] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
489] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
490] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
491] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
492] 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.
493] 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.
494] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
495] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
497] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
498] 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
499] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
500] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
501] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
502] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
503] Commonsense is not so common.
504] 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
505] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
506] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
507] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
508] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
509] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
510] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
511] 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.
512] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
513] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
514] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
515] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
516] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
517] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
518] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
519] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
520] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
521] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
522] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
523] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
524] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
525] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
526] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
527] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
528] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
529] 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.
530] 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.
531] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
532] 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.
533] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
534] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
535] 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.
536] 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.
537] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
538] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
539] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
540] 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
541] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
542] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
543] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
544] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
545] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
546] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
547] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
548] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
549] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
550] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
551] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
552] 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)
553] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
554] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
555] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
556] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
557] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
558] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
559] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
560] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
561] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
562] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
563] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
564] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
565] 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
566] 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.”
567] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
568] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
569] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
570] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
571] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
572] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
573] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
574] 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
575] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
576] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
577] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
578] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
579] 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
580] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
581] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
582] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
583] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
584] 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.
585] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
586] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
587] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
588] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
589] 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.
590] 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
591] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
592] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
593] 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.
594] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
595] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
596] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
597] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
598] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
599] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
600] 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