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1] 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.
2] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
3] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
4] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
5] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
6] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
7] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
8] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
9] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
10] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
11] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
12] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
13] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
14] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
15] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
16] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
17] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
18] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
19] 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
20] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
21] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
22] 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
23] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
24] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
25] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
26] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
27] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
28] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
29] 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)
30] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
31] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
32] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
33] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
34] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
35] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
36] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
37] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
38] 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)
39] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
40] 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.
41] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
42] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
43] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
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] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
46] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
47] 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)
48] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
49] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
50] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
51] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
52] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
53] 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.
54] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
55] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
56] 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
57] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
58] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
59] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
60] 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.
61] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
62] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
63] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
64] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
65] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
66] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
67] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
68] 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.
69] 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.
70] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
71] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
72] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
73] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
74] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
75] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
76] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
77] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
78] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
79] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
80] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
81] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
82] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
83] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
84] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
85] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
86] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
87] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
88] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
89] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
90] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
91] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
92] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
93] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
94] 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
95] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
96] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
97] 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
98] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
99] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
100] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
101] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
102] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
103] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
104] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
105] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
106] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
107] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
108] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
109] 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
110] 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.
111] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
112] 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.
113] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
114] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
115] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
116] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
117] 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)
118] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
119] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
120] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
121] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
122] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
123] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
124] 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.
125] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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126] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
127] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
128] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
129] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
130] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
131] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
132] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
133] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
134] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
135] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
136] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
137] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
138] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
139] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
140] Commonsense is not so common.
141] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
142] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
143] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
144] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
145] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
146] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
147] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
148] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
149] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
150] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
151] 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
152] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
153] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
154] 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
155] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
156] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
157] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
158] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
159] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
160] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
161] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
162] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
163] 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
164] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
165] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
166] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
167] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
168] 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
169] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
170] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
171] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
172] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
173] 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.
174] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
175] 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.
176] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
177] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
178] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
179] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
180] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
181] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
182] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
183] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
184] 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.
185] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
186] 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)
187] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
188] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
189] 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.
190] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
191] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
192] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
193] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
194] 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.
195] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
196] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
197] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
198] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
199] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
200] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
201] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
202] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
203] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
204] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
205] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
206] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
207] 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
208] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
209] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
210] 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.”
211] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
212] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
213] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
214] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
215] 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
216] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
217] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
218] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
219] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
220] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
221] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
222] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
223] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
224] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
225] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
226] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
227] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
228] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
229] 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.
230] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
231] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
232] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
233] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
234] 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.
235] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
236] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
237] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
238] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
239] 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.”
240] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
241] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
242] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
243] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
244] 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
245] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
246] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
247] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
248] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
249] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
250] 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
251] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
252] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
253] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
254] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
255] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
256] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
257] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
258] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
259] 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
260] 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.
261] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
262] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
263] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
264] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
265] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
266] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
267] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
268] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
269] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
270] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
271] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
272] 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.
273] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
274] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
275] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
276] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
277] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
278] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
279] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
280] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
281] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
282] 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.
283] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
284] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
285] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
286] 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)
287] 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)
288] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
289] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
290] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
291] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
292] 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
293] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
294] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
295] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
296] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
297] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
298] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
299] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
300] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
301] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
302] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
303] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
304] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
305] 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.
306] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
307] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
308] 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
309] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
310] 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.
311] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
312] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
313] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
314] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
315] 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.
316] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
317] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
318] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
319] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
320] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
321] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
322] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
323] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
324] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
325] 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
326] 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.
327] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
328] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
329] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
330] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
331] 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)
332] 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.
333] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
334] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
335] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
336] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
337] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
338] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
339] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
340] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
341] 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
342] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
343] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
344] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
345] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
346] 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)
347] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
348] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
349] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
350] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
351] 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.
352] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
353] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
354] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
355] 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)
356] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
357] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
358] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
359] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
360] 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
361] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
362] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
363] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
364] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
365] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
366] 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
367] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
368] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
369] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
370] 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
371] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
372] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
373] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
374] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
375] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
376] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
377] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
378] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
379] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
380] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
381] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
382] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
383] 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.
384] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
385] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
386] 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
387] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
388] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
389] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
390] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
391] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
392] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
393] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
394] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
395] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
396] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
397] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
398] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
399] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
400] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
401] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
402] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
403] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
404] 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 .
405] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
406] 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
407] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
408] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
409] 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
410] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
411] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
412] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
413] 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.
414] 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
415] 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.
416] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
417] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
418] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
419] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
420] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
421] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
422] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
423] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
424] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
425] 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
426] 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
427] 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.
428] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
429] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
430] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
431] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
432] 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.
433] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
434] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
435] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
436] 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
437] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
438] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
439] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
440] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
441] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
442] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
443] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
444] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
445] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
446] 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
447] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
448] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
449] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
450] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
451] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
452] 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.
453] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
454] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
455] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
456] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
457] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
458] 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)
459] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
460] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
461] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
462] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
463] 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
464] 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
465] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
466] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
467] 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]
468] 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
469] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
470] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
471] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
472] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
473] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
474] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
475] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
476] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
477] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
478] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
479] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
480] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
481] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
482] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
483] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
484] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
485] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
486] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
487] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
488] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
489] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
490] 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
491] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
492] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
493] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
494] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
495] 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
496] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
497] 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.
498] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
499] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
500] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
501] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
502] 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.
503] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
504] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
505] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
506] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
507] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
508] 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)
509] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
510] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
511] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
512] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
513] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
514] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
515] 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
516] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
517] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
518] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
519] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
520] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
521] 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.
522] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
523] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
524] 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.
525] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
526] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
527] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
528] 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)
529] 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)
530] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
531] 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.
532] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
533] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
534] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
535] 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
536] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
537] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
538] 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.
539] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
540] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
541] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
542] 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
543] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
544] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
545] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
546] 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
547] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
548] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
549] 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)
550] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
551] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
552] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
553] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
554] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
555] 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
556] 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).
557] 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]
558] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
559] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
560] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
561] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
562] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
563] 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)
564] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
565] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
566] 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)
567] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
568] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
569] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
570] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
571] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
572] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
573] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
574] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
575] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
576] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
577] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
578] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
579] 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.
580] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
581] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
582] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
583] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
584] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
585] 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
586] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
587] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
588] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
589] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
590] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
591] 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
592] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
593] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
594] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
595] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
597] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
598] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
599] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
600] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)