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1] 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.
2] 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
3] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
4] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
5] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
6] 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
7] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
8] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
9] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
10] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
11] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
12] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
13] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
14] 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
15] 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.
16] 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.
17] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
18] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
19] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
20] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
21] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
22] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
23] 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.
24] 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.
25] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
26] 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]
27] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
28] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
29] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
30] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
31] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
32] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
33] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
34] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
35] 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.
36] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
37] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
38] 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.
39] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
40] 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
41] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
42] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
43] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
44] 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.
45] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
46] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
47] 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
48] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
49] 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).
50] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
51] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
52] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
53] 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
54] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
55] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
56] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
57] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
58] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
59] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
60] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
61] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
62] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
63] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
64] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
65] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
66] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
67] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
68] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
69] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
70] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
71] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
72] 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.
73] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
74] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
75] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
76] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
77] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
78] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
79] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
80] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
81] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
82] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
83] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
84] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
85] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
86] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
87] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
88] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
89] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
90] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
91] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
92] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
93] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
94] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
95] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
96] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
97] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
98] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
99] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
100] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
101] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
102] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
103] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
104] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
105] 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)
106] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
107] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
108] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
109] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
110] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
111] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
112] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
113] 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)
114] 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)
115] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
116] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
117] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
118] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
119] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
120] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
121] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
122] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
123] 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.
124] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
125] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
126] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
127] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
128] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
129] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
130] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
131] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
132] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
133] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
134] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
135] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
136] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
137] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
138] 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.”
139] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
140] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
141] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
142] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
143] 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.
144] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
145] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
146] 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.
147] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
148] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
149] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
150] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
151] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
152] 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.
153] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
154] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
155] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
156] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
157] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
158] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
159] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
160] 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.
161] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
162] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
163] 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.
164] 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
165] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
166] 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
167] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
168] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
169] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
170] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
171] 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.
172] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
173] 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
174] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
175] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
176] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
177] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
178] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
179] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
180] 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.
181] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
182] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
183] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
184] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
185] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
186] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
187] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
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 first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
190] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
191] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
192] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
193] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
194] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
195] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
196] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
197] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
198] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
199] 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)
200] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
201] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
202] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
203] 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.
204] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
205] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
206] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
207] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
208] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
209] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
210] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
211] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
212] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
213] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
214] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
215] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
216] 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
217] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
218] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
219] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
220] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
221] 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
222] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
223] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
224] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
225] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
226] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
227] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
228] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
229] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
230] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
231] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
232] 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)
233] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
235] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
236] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
237] 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
238] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
239] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
240] 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.
241] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
242] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
243] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
244] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
245] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
246] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
247] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
248] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
249] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
250] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
251] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
252] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
253] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
254] 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
255] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
256] 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.
257] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
258] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
259] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
260] 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
261] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
262] 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
263] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
264] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
265] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
266] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
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] 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.
269] 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
270] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
271] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
272] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
273] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
274] 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
275] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
276] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
277] 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
278] 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)
279] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
280] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
281] 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
282] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
283] 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)
284] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
285] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
286] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
287] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
288] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
289] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
290] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
291] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
292] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
293] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
294] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
295] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
296] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
297] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
298] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
299] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
300] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
301] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
302] 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.
303] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
304] 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.
305] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
306] 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
307] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
308] 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
309] 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
310] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
311] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
312] 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.
313] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
314] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
315] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
316] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
317] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
318] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
319] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
320] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
321] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
322] 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.
323] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
324] 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.
325] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
326] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
327] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
328] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
329] 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.
330] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
331] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
332] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
333] 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.
334] 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
335] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
336] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
337] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
338] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
339] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
340] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
341] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
342] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
343] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
344] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
345] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
346] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
347] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
348] 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.
349] 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)
350] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
351] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
352] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
353] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
354] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
355] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] 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)
357] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
358] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
359] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
360] 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.
361] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
362] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
363] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
364] 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
365] 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.
366] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
367] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
368] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
369] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
370] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
371] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
372] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
373] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
374] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
375] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
376] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
377] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
378] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
379] 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
380] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
381] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
382] 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.
383] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
384] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
385] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
386] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
387] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
388] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
389] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
390] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
391] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
392] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
393] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
394] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
395] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
396] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
397] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
398] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
399] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
400] 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
401] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
402] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
403] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
404] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
405] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
406] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
407] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
408] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
409] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
410] 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.
411] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
412] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
413] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
414] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
415] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
416] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
417] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
418] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
419] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
420] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
421] 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.
422] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
423] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
424] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
425] 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
426] 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.
427] 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.
428] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
429] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
430] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
431] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
432] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
433] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
434] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
435] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
436] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
437] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
438] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
439] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
440] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
441] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
442] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
443] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
444] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
445] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
446] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
447] 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
448] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
449] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
450] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
451] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
452] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
453] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
454] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
455] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
456] 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.
457] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
458] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
459] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
460] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
461] 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.
462] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
463] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
464] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
465] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
466] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
467] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
468] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
469] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
470] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
471] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
472] 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
473] 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
474] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
475] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
476] 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
477] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
478] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
479] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
480] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
481] 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.
482] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
483] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
484] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
485] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
486] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
487] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
488] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
489] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
490] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
491] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
492] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
493] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
494] 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
495] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
496] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
497] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
498] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
499] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
500] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
501] 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.
502] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
503] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
504] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
505] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
506] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
507] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
508] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
509] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
510] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
511] 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 .
512] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
513] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
514] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
515] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
516] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
517] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
518] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
519] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
520] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
521] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
522] 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.”
523] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
524] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
525] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
526] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
527] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
528] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
529] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
530] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
531] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
532] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
533] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
534] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
535] 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.
536] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
537] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
538] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
539] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
540] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
541] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
542] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
543] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
544] 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
545] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
546] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
547] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
548] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
549] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
550] 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.
551] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
552] 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
553] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
554] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
555] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
556] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
557] 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.
558] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
559] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
560] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
561] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
562] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
563] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
564] 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
565] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
566] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
567] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
568] 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
569] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
570] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
571] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
572] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
573] 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.
574] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
575] 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)
576] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
577] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
578] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
579] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
580] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
581] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
582] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
583] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
584] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
585] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
586] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
587] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
588] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
589] 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.
590] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
591] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
592] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
593] 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.
594] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
595] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
596] 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
597] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
598] 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
599] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
600] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)