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1] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
2] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
3] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
4] 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)
5] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
6] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
7] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
8] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
9] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
10] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
11] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
12] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
13] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
15] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
16] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
17] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
18] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
19] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
20] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
21] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
22] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
23] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24] 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.
25] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
26] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
27] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
28] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
29] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
30] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
31] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
32] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
33] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
34] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
35] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
36] 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
37] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
38] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
39] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
40] 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.
41] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
42] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
43] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
44] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
45] 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.
46] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
47] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
48] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
49] 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.
50] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
51] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
52] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
53] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
54] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
55] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
56] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
57] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
58] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
59] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
60] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
61] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
62] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
63] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
65] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
66] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
67] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
68] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
69] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
70] 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]
71] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
72] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
73] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
74] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
75] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
76] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
77] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
78] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
79] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
80] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
81] 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)
82] 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
83] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
84] 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
85] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
86] 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)
87] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
88] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
89] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
90] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
91] 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)
92] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
93] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
94] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
95] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
96] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
97] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
98] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
99] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
100] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
101] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
102] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
103] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
104] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
105] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
106] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
107] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
108] 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.
109] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
110] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
111] 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).
112] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
113] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
114] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
115] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
116] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
117] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
118] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
119] 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.
120] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
121] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
122] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
123] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
124] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
125] 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.
126] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
127] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
128] 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
129] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
130] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
131] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
132] 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)
133] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
134] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
135] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
136] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
137] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
138] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
139] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
140] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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141] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
142] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
143] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
144] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
145] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
146] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
147] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
148] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
149] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
150] 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.
151] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
152] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
153] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
154] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
155] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
156] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
157] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
158] 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.
159] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
160] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
161] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
162] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
163] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
164] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
165] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
166] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
167] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
168] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
169] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
170] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
171] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
172] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
173] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
174] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
175] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
176] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
177] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
178] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
179] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
180] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
181] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
182] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
183] 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.
184] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
185] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
186] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
187] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
188] 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.
189] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
190] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
191] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
192] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
193] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
194] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
195] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
196] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
197] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
198] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
199] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
200] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
201] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
202] 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.
203] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
204] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
205] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
206] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
207] 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
208] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
209] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
210] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
211] 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.”
212] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
213] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
214] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
215] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
216] 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)
217] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
218] 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
219] 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
220] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
221] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
222] 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)
223] 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.
224] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
225] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
226] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
227] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
228] 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
229] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
230] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
231] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
232] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
233] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
234] 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.
235] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
236] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
237] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
238] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
239] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
240] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
241] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
242] 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.
243] 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.
244] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
245] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
246] 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
247] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
248] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
249] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
250] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
251] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
252] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
253] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
254] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
255] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
256] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
257] 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
258] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
259] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
260] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
261] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
262] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
263] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
264] 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)
265] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
266] 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.
267] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
268] 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.
269] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
270] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
271] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
272] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
273] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
274] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
275] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
276] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
277] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
278] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
279] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
280] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
281] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
282] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
283] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
284] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
285] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
286] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
287] 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.
288] 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.
289] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
290] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
291] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
292] 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)
293] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
294] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
295] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
296] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
297] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
298] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
299] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
300] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
301] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
302] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
303] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
304] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
305] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
306] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
307] 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)
308] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
309] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
310] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
311] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
312] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
313] 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.
314] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
315] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
316] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
317] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
318] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
319] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
320] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
321] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
322] 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).
323] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
324] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
325] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
326] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
327] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
328] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
329] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
330] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
331] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
332] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
333] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
334] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
335] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
336] 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
337] 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)
338] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
339] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
340] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
341] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
342] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
343] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
344] 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.
345] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
346] 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
347] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
348] 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
349] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
350] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
351] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
352] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
353] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
354] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
355] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
356] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
357] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
358] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
359] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
360] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
361] 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.
362] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
363] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
364] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
365] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
366] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
367] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
368] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
369] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
370] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
371] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
372] 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.
373] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
374] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
375] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
376] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
377] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
378] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
379] 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
380] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
381] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
382] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
383] 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.
384] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
385] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
386] 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
387] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
388] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
389] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
390] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
391] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
392] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
393] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
394] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
395] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
396] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
397] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
398] 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.
399] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
400] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
401] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
402] 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
403] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
404] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
405] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
406] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
407] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
408] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
409] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
410] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
411] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
412] 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
413] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
414] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
415] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
416] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
417] 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
418] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
419] 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
420] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
421] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
422] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
423] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
424] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
425] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
426] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
427] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
428] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
429] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
430] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
431] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
432] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
433] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
434] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
435] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
436] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
437] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
438] 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.
439] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
440] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
441] 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.
442] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
443] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
444] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
445] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
446] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
447] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
448] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
449] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
450] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
451] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
452] 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.
453] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
454] 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.
455] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
456] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
457] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
458] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
459] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
460] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
461] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
462] 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.
463] 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.
464] 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
465] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
466] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
467] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
468] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
469] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
470] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
471] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
472] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
473] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
474] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
475] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
476] 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
477] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
478] 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.
479] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
480] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
481] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
482] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
483] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
484] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
485] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
486] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
487] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
488] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
489] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
490] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
491] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
492] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
493] 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
494] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
495] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
496] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
497] 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.
498] 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
499] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
500] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
501] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
502] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
503] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
504] 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)
505] 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
506] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
507] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
508] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
509] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
510] 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
511] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
512] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
513] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
514] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
515] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
516] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
517] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
518] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
519] 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
520] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
521] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
522] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
523] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
524] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
525] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
526] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
527] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
528] 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
529] 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.
530] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
531] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
532] 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
533] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
534] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
535] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
536] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
537] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
538] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
539] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
540] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
541] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
542] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
543] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
544] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
545] 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
546] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
547] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
548] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
549] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
550] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
551] 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.
552] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
553] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
554] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
555] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
556] 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
557] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
558] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
559] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
560] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
561] 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
562] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
563] 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.
564] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
565] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
566] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
567] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
568] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
569] 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)
570] 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.
571] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
572] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
573] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
574] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
575] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
576] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
577] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
578] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
579] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
580] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
581] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
582] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
583] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
584] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
585] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
586] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
587] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
588] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
589] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
590] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
591] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
592] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
593] Commonsense is not so common.
594] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
595] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
596] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
597] 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.
598] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
599] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
600] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.