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1] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
2] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
4] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
5] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
6] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
7] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
8] 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.
9] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
10] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
11] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
12] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
13] 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
14] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
15] 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)
16] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
17] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
18] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
20] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
21] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
22] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
23] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
24] 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.
25] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
26] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
27] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
28] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
29] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
30] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
31] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
32] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
33] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
34] 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.
35] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
36] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
37] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
38] 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.
39] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
40] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
41] 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
42] 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.
43] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
44] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45] 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)
46] 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)
47] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
48] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
49] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
50] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
51] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
52] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
53] 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
54] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
55] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
56] 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)
57] 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
58] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
59] 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)
60] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
61] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
62] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
63] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
64] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
65] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
66] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
67] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
68] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
69] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
70] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
71] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
72] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
73] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
74] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
75] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
76] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
77] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
78] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
79] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
80] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
81] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
82] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
83] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
84] 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)
85] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
86] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
87] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
88] 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.
89] 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
90] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
91] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
92] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
93] 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.
94] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
95] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
96] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
97] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
98] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
99] 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)
100] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
101] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
102] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
103] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
104] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
105] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
106] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
107] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
108] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
109] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
110] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
111] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
112] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
113] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
114] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
115] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
116] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
117] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
118] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
119] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
120] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
121] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
122] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
123] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
124] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
125] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
126] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
127] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
128] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
129] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
130] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
131] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
132] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
133] 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
134] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
135] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
136] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
137] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
138] 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
139] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
140] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
141] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
142] 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
143] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
144] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
145] 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.
146] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
147] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
148] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
149] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
150] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
151] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
152] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
153] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
154] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
155] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
156] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
157] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
158] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
159] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
160] 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)
161] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
162] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
163] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
164] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
165] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
166] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
167] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
168] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
169] 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)
170] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
171] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
172] 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
173] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
174] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
175] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
176] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
177] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
178] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
179] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
180] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
181] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
182] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
183] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
184] 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)
185] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
186] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
187] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
188] 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.
189] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
190] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
191] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
192] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
193] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
194] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
195] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
196] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
197] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
198] 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
199] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
200] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
201] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
202] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
203] 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.
204] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
205] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
206] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
207] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
208] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
209] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
210] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
211] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
212] 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.
213] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
214] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
215] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
216] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
217] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
218] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
219] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
220] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
221] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
222] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
223] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
224] 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.
225] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
226] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
227] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
228] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
229] 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.
230] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
231] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
232] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
233] 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.
234] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
235] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
236] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
237] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
238] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
239] 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)
240] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
241] 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.
242] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
243] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
244] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
245] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
246] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
247] 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.
248] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
249] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
250] 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.
251] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
252] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
253] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
254] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
255] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
256] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
257] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
258] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
259] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
260] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
261] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
262] 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.
263] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
264] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
265] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
266] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
267] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
268] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
269] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
270] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
271] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
272] 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
273] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
274] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
275] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
276] 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)
277] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
278] 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.
279] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
280] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
281] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
282] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
283] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
284] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
285] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
286] 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.
287] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
288] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
289] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
290] 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.
291] 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.
292] 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.
293] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
294] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
295] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
296] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
297] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
298] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
299] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
300] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
301] Commonsense is not so common.
302] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
303] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
304] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
305] 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.
306] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
307] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
308] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
309] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
310] 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
311] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
312] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
313] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
314] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
315] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
316] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
317] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
318] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
319] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
320] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
321] 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.
322] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
324] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
325] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
326] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
327] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
328] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
329] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
330] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
331] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
332] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
333] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
334] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
335] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
336] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
337] 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.
338] 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)
339] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
340] 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.
341] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
342] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
343] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
344] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
345] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
346] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
347] 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
348] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
349] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
350] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
351] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
352] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
353] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
354] 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
355] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
356] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
357] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
358] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
359] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
360] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
361] 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
362] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
363] 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.
364] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
365] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
366] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
367] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
368] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
369] 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)
370] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
371] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
372] 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.
373] 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
374] 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.
375] 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.
376] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
377] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
378] 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
379] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
380] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
381] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
382] 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)
383] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
384] 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)
385] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
386] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
387] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
388] 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.
389] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
390] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
391] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
392] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
393] 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.
394] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
395] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
396] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
397] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
398] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
399] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
400] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
401] 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
402] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
403] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
404] 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.
405] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
406] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
407] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
408] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
409] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
410] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
411] 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.
412] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
413] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
414] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
415] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
416] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
417] 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
418] 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)
419] 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.
420] 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)
421] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
422] 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
423] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
424] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
425] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
426] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
427] 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.
428] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
429] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
430] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
431] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
432] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
433] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
434] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
435] 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
436] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
437] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
438] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
439] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
440] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
441] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
442] 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
443] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
444] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
445] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
446] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
447] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
448] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
449] 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
450] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
451] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
452] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
453] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
454] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
456] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
457] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
458] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
459] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
460] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
461] 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.
462] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
463] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
464] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
465] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
466] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
467] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
468] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
469] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
470] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
471] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
472] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
473] 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.
474] 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)
475] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
476] 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
477] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
478] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
479] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
480] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
481] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
482] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
483] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
484] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
485] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
486] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
487] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
488] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
490] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
491] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
492] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
493] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
494] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
495] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
496] 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
497] 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)
498] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
499] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
500] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
501] 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
502] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
503] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
504] 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.
505] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
506] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
507] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
508] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
509] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
510] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
511] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
512] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
513] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
514] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
515] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
516] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
517] 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)
518] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
519] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
520] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
521] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
522] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
523] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
524] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
525] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
526] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
527] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
528] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
529] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
530] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
531] 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.
532] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
533] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
534] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
535] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
536] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
537] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
538] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
539] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
540] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
541] 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.
542] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
543] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
544] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
545] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
546] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
547] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
548] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
549] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
550] 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
551] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
552] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
553] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
554] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
555] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
556] 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
557] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
558] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
559] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
560] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
561] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
562] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
563] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
564] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
565] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
566] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
567] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
568] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
569] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
570] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
571] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
572] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
573] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
574] 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
575] 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
576] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
577] 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
578] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
579] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
580] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
581] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
582] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
583] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
584] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
585] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
586] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
587] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
588] 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
589] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
590] 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
591] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
592] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
593] 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.
594] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
595] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
596] 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.
597] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
598] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
599] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
600] 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)