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1] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
2] 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.
3] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
4] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
5] 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
6] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
7] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
8] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
9] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
10] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
11] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
12] 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.
13] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
14] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
15] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
16] 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
17] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
18] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
19] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
20] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
21] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
22] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
23] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
25] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
26] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
27] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
28] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
29] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
30] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
31] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
32] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
33] 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.
34] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
35] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
36] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
37] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
38] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
39] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
40] 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)
41] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
43] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
44] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
45] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
46] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
47] 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
48] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
49] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
50] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
51] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
52] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
53] Commonsense is not so common.
54] 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)
55] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
56] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
57] 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 .
58] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
59] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
60] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
61] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
62] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
63] 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.
64] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
65] 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.
66] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
67] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
68] 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.
69] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
70] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
71] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
72] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
73] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
74] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
75] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
76] 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)
77] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
78] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
79] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
80] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
81] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
82] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
83] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
84] 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
85] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
86] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
87] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
88] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
89] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
90] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
91] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
92] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
93] 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)
94] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
95] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
96] 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.
97] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
98] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
99] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
100] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
101] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
102] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
103] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
104] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
105] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
106] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
107] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
108] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
109] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
110] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
111] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
112] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
113] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
114] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
115] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
116] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
117] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
118] 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)
119] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
120] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
121] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
122] 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
123] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
124] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
125] 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
126] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
127] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
128] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
129] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
130] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
131] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
132] 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.
133] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
134] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
135] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
136] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
137] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
138] 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
139] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
140] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
141] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
142] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
143] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
144] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
145] 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.
146] 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.
147] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
148] 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
149] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
150] 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)
151] 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
152] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
153] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
154] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
155] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
156] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
157] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
158] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
159] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
160] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
161] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
162] 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)
163] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
164] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
165] 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.
166] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
167] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
168] 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
169] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
170] 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.
171] 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.
172] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
173] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
174] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
175] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
176] 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 .
177] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
178] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
179] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
180] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
181] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
182] 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
183] 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
184] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
185] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
186] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
187] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
188] 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]
189] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
190] 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.
191] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
192] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
193] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
194] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
195] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
196] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
197] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
198] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
199] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
200] 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
201] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
202] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
203] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
204] 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.
205] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
206] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
207] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
208] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
209] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
210] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
211] 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
212] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
213] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
214] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
215] 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.
216] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
217] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
218] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
219] 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
220] 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.
221] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
222] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
223] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
224] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
225] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
227] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
228] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
229] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
230] 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)
231] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
232] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
233] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
234] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
235] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
236] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
237] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
238] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
239] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
240] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
241] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
242] 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.
243] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
244] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
245] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
246] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
247] 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.
248] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
249] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
250] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
251] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
252] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
253] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
254] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
255] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
256] 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)
257] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
258] 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.
259] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
260] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
261] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
262] 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)
263] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
264] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
265] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
266] 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.
267] 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]
268] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
269] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
270] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
271] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
272] 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.
273] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
274] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
275] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
276] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
277] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
278] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
279] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
280] 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.
281] 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)
282] 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
283] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
284] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
285] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
286] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
287] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
288] 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
289] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
290] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
291] 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.
292] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
293] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
294] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
295] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
296] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
297] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
298] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
299] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
300] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
301] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
302] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
303] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
304] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
305] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
306] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
307] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
308] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
309] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
310] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
311] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
312] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
313] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
314] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
315] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
316] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
317] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
318] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
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] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
321] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
322] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
323] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
324] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
325] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
326] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
327] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
328] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
329] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
330] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
331] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
332] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
333] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
334] 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.
335] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
336] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
337] 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.
338] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
339] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
340] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
341] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
342] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
343] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
344] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
345] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
346] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
347] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
348] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
349] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
350] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
351] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
352] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
353] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
354] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
355] 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.
356] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
357] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
358] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
359] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
360] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
361] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
362] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
363] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
364] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
365] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
366] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
367] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
368] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
369] 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.
370] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
371] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
372] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
373] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
374] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
375] 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.
376] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
377] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
378] 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.
379] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
380] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
381] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
382] 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)
383] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
384] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
385] 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
386] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
387] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
388] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
389] 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
390] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
391] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
392] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
393] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
394] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
395] 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)
396] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
397] 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
398] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
399] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
400] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
401] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
402] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
403] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
404] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
405] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
406] 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
407] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
408] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
409] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
410] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
411] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
412] 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)
413] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
414] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
415] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
416] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
417] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
418] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
419] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
420] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
421] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
422] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
423] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
424] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
425] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
426] 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
427] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
428] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
429] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
430] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
431] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
432] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
433] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
434] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
435] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
436] 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.
437] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
438] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
439] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
440] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
441] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
442] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
443] 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
444] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
445] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
446] 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
447] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
448] 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.
449] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
450] 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).
451] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
452] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
453] 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.
454] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
455] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
456] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
457] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
458] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
459] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
460] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
461] 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
462] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
463] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
464] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
465] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
466] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
467] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
468] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
469] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
470] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
471] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
472] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
473] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
474] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
475] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
476] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
477] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
478] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
479] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
480] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
481] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
482] 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.
483] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
484] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
485] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
487] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
488] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
489] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
490] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
491] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
492] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
493] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
494] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
495] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
496] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
497] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
498] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
499] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
500] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
501] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
502] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
503] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
504] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
505] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
506] 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)
507] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
508] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
509] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
510] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
511] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
512] 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)
513] 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
514] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
515] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
516] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
517] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
518] 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.
519] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
520] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
521] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
522] 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)
523] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
524] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
525] 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
526] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
527] 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
528] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
529] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
530] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
531] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
532] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
533] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
534] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
535] 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.
536] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
537] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
538] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
539] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
540] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
541] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
542] 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
543] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
544] 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
545] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
546] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
547] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
548] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
549] 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
550] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
551] 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.
552] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
553] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
554] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
555] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
556] 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.
557] 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)
558] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
559] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
560] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
561] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
562] 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
563] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
564] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
565] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
566] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
567] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
568] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
569] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
570] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
571] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
572] 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.
573] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
574] 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)
575] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
576] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
577] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
578] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
579] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
580] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
581] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
582] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
583] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
584] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
585] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
586] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
587] 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
588] 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
589] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
590] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
591] 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
592] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
593] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
594] 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.
595] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
596] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
597] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
598] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
599] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
600] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.