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1] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
2] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
3] 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)
4] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
5] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
6] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
7] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
8] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
9] 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
10] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
11] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
12] 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)
13] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
15] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
16] 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
17] 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)
18] 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
19] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
20] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
21] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
22] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
23] 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
24] 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.
25] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
26] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
27] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
28] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
29] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
30] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
31] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
32] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
33] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
34] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
35] Commonsense is not so common.
36] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
37] 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)
38] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
39] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
40] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
41] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
42] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
43] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
44] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
45] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
46] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
47] 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.
48] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
49] 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)
50] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
51] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
52] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
53] 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
54] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
55] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
56] 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).
57] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
58] 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
59] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
60] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
61] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
62] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
63] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
64] 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.
65] 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.
66] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
67] 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
68] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
69] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
70] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
71] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
72] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
73] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
74] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
75] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
76] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
77] 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.
78] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
79] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
80] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
81] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
82] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
83] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
84] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
85] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
86] 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
87] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
88] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
89] 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
90] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
91] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
92] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
93] 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)
94] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
95] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
96] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
97] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
98] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
99] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
100] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
101] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
102] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
103] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
104] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
105] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
106] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
107] 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.
108] 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.
109] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
110] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
111] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
112] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
113] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
114] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
115] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
116] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
117] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
118] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
119] 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
120] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
121] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
122] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
123] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
124] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
125] 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).
126] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
127] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
128] 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)
129] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
130] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
131] 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
132] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
133] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
134] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
135] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
136] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
137] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
138] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
139] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
140] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
141] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
142] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
143] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
144] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
145] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
146] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
147] 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.
148] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
149] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
150] 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)
151] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
152] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
153] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
154] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
155] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
156] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
157] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
158] 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
159] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
160] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
161] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
162] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
163] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
164] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
165] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
166] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
167] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
168] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
169] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
170] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
171] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
172] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
173] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
174] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
175] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
176] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
177] 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.
178] 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
179] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
180] 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.
181] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
182] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
183] 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
184] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
185] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
186] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
187] 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)
188] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
189] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
190] 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.
191] 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.
192] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
193] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
194] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
195] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
196] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
197] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
198] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
199] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
200] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
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] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
203] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
204] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
205] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
206] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
207] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
208] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
209] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
210] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
211] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
212] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
213] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
214] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
215] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
216] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
217] 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
218] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
219] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
220] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
221] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
222] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
223] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
224] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
225] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
226] 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.
227] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
228] 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
229] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
230] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
231] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
232] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
233] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
234] 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
235] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
236] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
237] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
238] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
239] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
240] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
241] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
242] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
243] 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.
244] 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.
245] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
246] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
247] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
249] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
250] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
251] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
252] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
253] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
254] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
255] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
256] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
257] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
258] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
259] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
260] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
261] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
262] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
263] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
264] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
265] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
266] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
267] 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
268] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
269] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
270] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
271] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
272] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
273] 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)
274] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
275] 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.
276] 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.
277] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
278] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
279] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
280] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
281] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
282] 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
283] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
284] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
285] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
286] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
287] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
288] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
289] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
290] 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
291] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
292] 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
293] 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.
294] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
295] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
296] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
297] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
298] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
299] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
300] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
301] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
302] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
303] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
304] 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.”
305] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
306] 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.
307] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
308] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
309] 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)
310] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
311] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
312] 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.
313] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
314] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
315] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
316] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
317] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
318] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
319] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
320] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
321] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
322] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
323] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
324] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
325] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
326] 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)
327] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
328] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
329] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
330] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
331] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
332] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
333] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
334] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
335] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
336] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
337] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
338] 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.
339] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
340] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
341] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
342] 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.”
343] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
345] 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.
346] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
347] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
348] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
349] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
350] 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
351] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
352] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
353] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
354] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
355] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
356] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
357] 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)
358] 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.
359] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
360] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
361] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
362] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
363] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
364] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
365] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
366] 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.
367] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
368] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
369] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
370] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
371] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
372] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
373] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
374] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
375] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
376] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
377] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
378] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
379] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
380] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
381] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
382] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
383] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
384] 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.
385] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
386] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
387] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
388] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
389] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
390] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
391] 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.
392] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
393] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
394] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
395] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
396] 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.
397] 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)
398] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
399] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
400] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
401] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
402] 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
403] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
404] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
405] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
406] 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
407] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
408] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
409] 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
410] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
411] 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
412] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
413] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
414] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
415] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
416] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
417] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
418] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
419] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
420] 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
421] 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.
422] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
423] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
424] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
425] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
426] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
427] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
428] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
429] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
430] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
431] 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)
432] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
433] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
434] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
435] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
436] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
437] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
438] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
439] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
440] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
441] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
442] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
443] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
444] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
445] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
446] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
447] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
448] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
449] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
450] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
451] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
452] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
453] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
454] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
455] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
456] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
457] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
459] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
460] 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
461] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
462] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
463] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
464] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
465] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
466] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
467] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
468] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
469] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
470] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
471] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
472] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
473] 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
474] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
475] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
476] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
477] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
478] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
479] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
480] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
481] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
482] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
483] 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]
484] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
485] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
486] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
487] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
488] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
489] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
490] 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.
491] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
492] 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.
493] 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.
494] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
495] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
496] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
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] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
499] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
500] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
501] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
502] 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
503] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
504] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
505] 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.
506] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
507] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
508] 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)
509] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
510] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
511] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
512] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
513] 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.
514] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
515] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
516] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
517] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
518] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
519] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
520] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
521] 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
522] 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
523] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
524] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
525] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
526] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
527] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
528] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
529] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
530] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
531] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
532] 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.
533] 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.
534] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
535] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
536] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
537] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
538] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
539] 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
540] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
541] 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)
542] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
543] 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.
544] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
545] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
546] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
547] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
548] 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
549] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
550] 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)
551] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
552] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
553] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
554] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
555] 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.
556] 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
557] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
558] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
559] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
560] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
561] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
562] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
563] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
564] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
565] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
566] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
567] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
568] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
569] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
570] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
571] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
572] 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.
573] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
574] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
575] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
576] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
577] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
578] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
579] 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.
580] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
581] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
582] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
583] 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)
584] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
585] 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
586] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
587] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
588] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
589] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
590] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
591] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
592] 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)
593] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
594] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
595] 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.
596] 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
597] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
598] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
599] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
600] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.