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1] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
2] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
3] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
4] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
5] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
6] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
7] 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.
8] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
9] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
10] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
11] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
12] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
13] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
14] 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
15] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
16] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
17] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
18] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
19] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
20] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
21] 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.
22] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
23] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
24] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
25] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
26] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
27] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
28] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
29] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
30] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
31] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
32] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
33] 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)
34] 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)
35] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
36] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
37] 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.
38] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
39] 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.
40] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
41] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
42] 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.
43] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
44] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
45] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
46] 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
47] 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.
48] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
49] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
50] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
51] 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.
52] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
53] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
54] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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55] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
56] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
57] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
58] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
59] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
60] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
61] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
62] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
63] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
64] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
65] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
66] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
67] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
68] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
69] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
70] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
71] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
72] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
73] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
74] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
75] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
76] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
77] 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)
78] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
79] 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.
80] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
81] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
82] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
83] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
84] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
85] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
86] 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
87] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
88] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
89] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
90] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
91] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
92] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
93] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
94] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
95] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
96] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
97] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
98] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
99] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
100] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
101] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
102] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
103] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
104] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
105] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
106] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
107] 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.
108] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
109] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
110] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
111] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
112] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
113] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
114] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
115] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
116] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
117] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
118] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
119] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
120] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
121] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
122] 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
123] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
124] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
125] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
126] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
127] 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.
128] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
129] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
130] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
131] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
132] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
133] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
134] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
135] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
136] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
137] 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)
138] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
139] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
140] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
141] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
142] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
143] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
144] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
145] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
146] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
147] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
148] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
149] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
150] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
151] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
152] 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.
153] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
154] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
155] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
156] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
157] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
158] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
159] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
160] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
161] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
162] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
163] 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
164] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
165] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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166] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
167] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
168] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
169] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
170] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
171] 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
172] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
173] 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
174] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
175] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
176] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
177] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
178] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
179] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
180] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
181] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
182] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
183] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
184] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
185] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
186] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
187] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
188] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
189] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
190] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
191] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
192] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
193] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
194] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
195] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
196] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
197] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
198] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
199] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
200] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
201] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
202] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
203] 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
204] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
205] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
206] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
207] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
208] 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.
209] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
210] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
211] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
212] 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.
213] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
214] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
215] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
216] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
217] 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
218] 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
219] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
220] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
221] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
222] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
223] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
224] 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.
225] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
226] 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.
227] 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
228] 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
229] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
230] 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
231] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
232] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
233] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
234] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
235] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
236] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
237] 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.
238] 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
239] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
240] 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).
241] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
242] 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.
243] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
244] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
245] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
246] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
247] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
248] 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.
249] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
250] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
251] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
252] 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)
253] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
254] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
255] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] 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
257] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
258] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
259] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
260] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
261] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
262] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
263] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
264] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
265] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
266] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
267] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
268] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
269] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
270] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
271] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
272] 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.
273] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
274] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
275] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
276] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
277] 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)
278] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
279] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
280] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
281] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
282] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
283] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
284] 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
285] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
286] 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.
287] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
288] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
289] 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.
290] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
291] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
292] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
293] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
294] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
295] 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
296] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
297] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
298] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
299] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
300] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
301] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
302] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
303] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
304] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
305] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
306] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
307] 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)
308] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
309] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
310] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
311] 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
312] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
313] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
314] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
315] 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
316] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
317] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
318] 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
319] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
320] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
321] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
322] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
323] 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
324] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
325] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
326] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
327] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
328] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
329] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
330] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
331] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
332] 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.
333] 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
334] 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
335] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
336] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
337] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
338] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
339] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
340] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
341] 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.
342] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
343] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
344] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
345] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
346] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
347] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
348] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
349] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
350] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
351] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
352] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
353] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
354] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
355] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
356] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
357] 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)
358] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
359] 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.
360] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
361] 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
362] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
363] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
364] 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.
365] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
366] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
367] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
368] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
369] 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.
370] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
371] 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)
372] 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]
373] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
374] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] 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
376] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
377] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
378] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
379] 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
380] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
381] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
382] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
383] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
384] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
385] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
386] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
387] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
388] 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.
389] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
390] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
391] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
392] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
393] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
394] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
395] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
396] 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
397] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
398] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
399] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
400] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
401] 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.
402] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
403] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
404] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
405] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
406] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
407] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
408] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
409] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
410] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
411] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
412] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
413] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
414] 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.
415] 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.
416] 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.
417] 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.
418] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
419] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
420] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
421] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
422] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
423] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
424] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
425] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
426] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
427] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
428] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
429] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
430] 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.
431] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
432] Commonsense is not so common.
433] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
434] 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.
435] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
436] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
437] 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 .
438] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
439] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
440] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
441] 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)
442] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
443] 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
444] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
445] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
446] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
447] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
448] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
449] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
450] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
451] 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)
452] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
453] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
454] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
455] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
456] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
457] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
459] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
460] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
461] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
462] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
463] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
464] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
465] 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.
466] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
467] 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)
468] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
469] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
470] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
471] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
472] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
473] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
474] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
475] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
476] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
477] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
478] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
479] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
480] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
481] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
482] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
483] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
484] 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.
485] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
486] 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.
487] 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.
488] 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.
489] 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.
490] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
491] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
492] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
493] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
494] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
495] 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.
496] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
497] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
498] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
499] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
500] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
501] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
502] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
503] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
504] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
505] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
506] 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)
507] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
508] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
509] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
510] 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
511] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
512] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
513] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
514] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
515] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
516] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
517] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
518] 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)
519] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
521] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
522] 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)
523] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
524] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
525] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
526] 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
527] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
528] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
529] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
530] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
531] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
533] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
534] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
535] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
536] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
537] 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.
538] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
539] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
540] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
541] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
542] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
543] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
545] 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 .
546] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
547] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
548] 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
549] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
550] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
551] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
552] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
553] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
554] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
555] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
556] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
557] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
558] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
559] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
560] 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.
561] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
562] 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.
563] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
564] 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
565] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
566] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
567] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
568] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
569] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
570] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
571] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
572] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
573] Commonsense is not so common.
574] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
575] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
576] 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.
577] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
578] 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.
579] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
580] 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)
581] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
582] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
583] 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.
584] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
585] 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]
586] 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
587] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
588] 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)
589] 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
590] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
591] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
592] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
593] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
594] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
595] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
596] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
597] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
598] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
599] 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
600] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.