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1] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
2] 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
3] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
4] 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)
5] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
6] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
7] 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.
8] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
9] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
10] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
11] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
12] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
13] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
14] 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.
15] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
16] 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
17] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
18] 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.”
19] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
20] 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)
21] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
22] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
23] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
24] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
25] 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.
26] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
27] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
28] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
29] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
30] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
31] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
32] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
33] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
34] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
35] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
36] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
37] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] 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
39] 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)
40] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
41] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
42] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
43] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
44] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
45] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
46] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
47] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
48] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
49] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
50] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
51] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
52] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
53] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
54] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
55] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
56] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
57] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
58] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
59] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
60] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
61] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
62] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
63] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
64] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
65] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
66] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
67] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
68] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
69] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
70] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
71] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
72] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
73] 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
74] 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.
75] 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.
76] 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.
77] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
78] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
79] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
80] 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
81] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
82] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
83] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
84] 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)
85] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
86] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
87] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
88] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
89] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
90] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
91] 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.
92] 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).
93] 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.
94] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
95] 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.
96] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
97] 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
98] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
99] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
100] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
101] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
102] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
103] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
104] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
105] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
106] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
107] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
108] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
109] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
110] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
111] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
112] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
113] 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.
114] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
115] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
116] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
117] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
118] 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
119] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
120] 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
121] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
122] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
123] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
124] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
125] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
126] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
127] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
128] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
129] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
130] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
131] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
132] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
133] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
134] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
135] 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.
136] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
137] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
138] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
139] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
140] 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.
141] 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.
142] 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)
143] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
144] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
145] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
146] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
147] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
148] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
149] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
150] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
151] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
152] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
153] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
154] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
155] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
156] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
157] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
158] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
159] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
160] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
161] 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.
162] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
163] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
164] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
165] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
166] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
167] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
168] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
169] 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
170] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
171] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
172] 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
173] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
174] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
175] 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.
176] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
177] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
178] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
179] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
180] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
181] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
182] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
183] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
184] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
185] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
186] 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.
187] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
188] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
189] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
190] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
191] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
192] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
193] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
194] 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)
195] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
196] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
197] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
198] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
199] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
200] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
201] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
202] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
203] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
204] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
205] 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
206] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
207] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
208] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
209] 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)
210] 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.
211] 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
212] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
213] 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.
214] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
215] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
216] 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.
217] Commonsense is not so common.
218] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
219] 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.
220] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
221] 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
222] 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.
223] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
224] 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.
225] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
226] 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.
227] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
228] 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)
229] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
230] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
231] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
232] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
233] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
234] 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.
235] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
236] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
237] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
238] 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.
239] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
240] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
241] 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.
242] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
243] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
244] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
245] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
246] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
247] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
248] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
249] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
250] 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
251] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
252] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
253] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
254] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
255] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
256] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
257] 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.
258] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
259] 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 .
260] 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.
261] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
262] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
263] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
264] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
265] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
266] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
267] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
268] 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
269] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
270] 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
271] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
272] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
273] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
274] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
275] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
276] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
277] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
278] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
279] 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.
280] 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
281] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
282] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
283] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
284] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
285] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
286] 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.
287] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
288] 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.
289] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
290] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
291] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
292] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
293] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
294] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
295] 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
296] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
297] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
298] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
299] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
300] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
301] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
302] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
303] 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)
304] 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.
305] 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.
306] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
307] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
308] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
309] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
310] 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.”
311] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
312] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
313] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
314] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
315] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
316] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
317] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
318] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
319] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
320] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
321] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
322] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
323] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
324] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
325] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
326] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
327] 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.
328] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
329] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
330] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
331] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
332] 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.
333] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
334] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
335] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
336] 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
337] 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.
338] 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)
339] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
340] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
341] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
342] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
343] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
344] 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
345] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
346] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
347] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
348] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
349] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
350] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
351] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
352] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
353] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
354] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
355] 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
356] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
357] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
358] 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.
359] 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.
360] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
361] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
362] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
363] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
364] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
365] 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
366] 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
367] 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.
368] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
369] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
370] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
371] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
372] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
373] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
374] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
375] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
376] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
377] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
378] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
379] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
380] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
381] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
382] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
383] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
384] 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.
385] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
386] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
387] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
388] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
389] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
390] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
391] 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.
392] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
393] 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
394] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
395] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
397] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
398] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
399] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
400] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
401] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
402] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
403] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
404] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
405] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
406] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
407] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
408] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
409] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
410] 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
411] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
412] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
413] 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
414] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
415] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
416] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
417] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
418] 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.
419] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
420] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
421] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
422] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
423] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
424] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
425] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
426] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
427] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
428] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
429] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
430] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
431] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
432] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
433] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
434] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
435] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
436] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
437] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
438] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
439] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
440] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
441] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
442] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
443] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
444] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
445] 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
446] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
447] 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
448] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
449] 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)
450] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
451] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
452] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
453] 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.
454] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
455] 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
456] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
457] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
458] 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.
459] 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.
460] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
461] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
462] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
463] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
464] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
465] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
466] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
467] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
468] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
469] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
470] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
471] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
472] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
473] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
474] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
475] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
476] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
477] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
478] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
479] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
480] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
481] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
482] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
483] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
484] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
485] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
486] 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.
487] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
488] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
489] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
490] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
491] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
492] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
493] 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.
494] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
495] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
496] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
497] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
498] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
499] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
500] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
501] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
502] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
503] 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.
504] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
505] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
506] 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]
507] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
508] 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.
509] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
510] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] 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
512] 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
513] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
514] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
515] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
516] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
517] 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)
518] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
519] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
520] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
521] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
522] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
523] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
524] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
525] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
526] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
527] 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.
528] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
529] 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
530] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
531] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
532] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
533] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
534] 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
535] 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.
536] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
537] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
538] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
539] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
540] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
541] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
542] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
543] 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
544] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
545] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
546] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
547] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
548] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
549] 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
550] 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.
551] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
552] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
553] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
554] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
555] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
556] 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)
557] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
558] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
559] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
560] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
561] 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.
562] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
563] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
564] 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
565] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
566] 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]
567] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
568] 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
569] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
570] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
571] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
572] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
573] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
574] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
575] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
576] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
577] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
578] 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)
579] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
580] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
581] 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.
582] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
583] 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)
584] 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.
585] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
586] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
587] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
588] 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
589] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
590] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
591] 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.
592] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
593] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
594] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
595] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
596] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
597] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
598] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
599] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
600] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A