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1] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
2] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
4] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
5] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
6] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
7] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
8] 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
9] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
10] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
11] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
12] 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.
13] 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)
14] 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.
15] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
16] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
17] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
18] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
19] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
20] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
21] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
22] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
23] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
24] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
25] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
26] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
27] 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
28] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
29] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
30] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
31] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
32] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
33] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
34] 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.
35] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
36] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
37] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
38] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
39] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
40] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
41] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
42] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
43] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
44] 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)
45] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
46] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
47] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
48] 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
49] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
50] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
51] 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
52] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
53] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
54] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
55] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
56] 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
57] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
58] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
59] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
60] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
61] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
62] 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
63] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
64] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
65] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
66] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
67] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
68] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
69] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
70] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
71] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
72] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
73] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
74] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
75] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
76] 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
77] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
78] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
79] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
80] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
81] 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).
82] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
83] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
84] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
85] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
86] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
87] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
88] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
89] 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
90] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
91] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
92] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
93] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
94] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
95] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
96] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
97] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
98] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
99] 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.
100] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
101] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
102] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
103] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
104] 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.
105] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
106] 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
107] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
108] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
109] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
110] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
111] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
112] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
113] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
114] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
115] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
116] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
117] 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.
118] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
119] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
120] 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
121] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
122] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
123] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
124] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
125] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
126] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
127] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
128] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
129] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
130] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
131] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
132] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
133] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
134] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
135] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
136] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
137] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
138] 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
139] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
140] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
141] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
142] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
143] 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)
144] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
145] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
146] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
147] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
148] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
149] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
150] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
151] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
152] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
153] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
154] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
155] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
156] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
157] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
158] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
159] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
160] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
161] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
162] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
163] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
164] 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.
165] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
166] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
167] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
168] 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)
169] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
170] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
171] 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.
172] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
173] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
174] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
175] 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.
176] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
177] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
178] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
179] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
180] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
181] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
182] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
183] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
184] 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.
185] 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
186] 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
187] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
188] 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
189] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
190] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
191] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
192] 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.
193] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
194] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
195] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
196] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
197] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
198] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
199] 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.
200] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
201] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
202] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
203] 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
204] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
205] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
206] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
207] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
208] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
209] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
210] 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)
211] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
212] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
213] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
214] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
215] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
216] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
217] 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)
218] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
219] 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
220] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
221] 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.
222] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
223] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
224] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
225] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
226] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
227] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
228] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
229] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
230] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
231] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
232] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
233] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
234] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
235] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
236] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
237] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
238] 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
239] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
240] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
241] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
242] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
243] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
244] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
245] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
246] 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.
247] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
248] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
249] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
250] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
251] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
252] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
253] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
254] 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.
255] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
256] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
257] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
258] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
259] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
260] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
261] 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)
262] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
263] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
264] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
265] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
266] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
267] 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.
268] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
269] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
270] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
271] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
272] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
273] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
274] 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.
275] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
276] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
277] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
278] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
279] 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)
280] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
281] 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
282] 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.
283] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
284] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
285] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
286] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
287] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
288] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
289] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
290] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
291] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
292] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
293] 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)
294] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
295] 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.
296] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
297] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
298] 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.
299] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
300] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
301] 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
302] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
303] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
304] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
305] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
306] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
307] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
308] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
309] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
310] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
311] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
312] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
313] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
314] 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
315] 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.
316] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
317] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
318] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
319] 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).
320] 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)
321] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
322] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
323] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
324] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
325] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
326] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
327] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
328] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
329] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
330] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
331] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
332] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
333] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
334] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
335] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
336] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
337] 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)
338] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
339] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
340] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
341] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] 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)
343] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
344] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
345] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
346] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
347] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
348] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
349] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
350] 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.
351] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
352] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
353] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
354] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
355] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
356] 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
357] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
358] 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
359] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
360] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
361] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
362] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
363] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
364] 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).
365] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
366] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
367] 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
368] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
369] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
370] 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.
371] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
372] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
373] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
374] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
375] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
376] 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.
377] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
378] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
379] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
380] 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.
381] 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.
382] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
383] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
384] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
385] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
386] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
387] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
388] 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.
389] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
390] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
391] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
392] 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.
393] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
394] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
395] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
397] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
398] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
399] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
400] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
401] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
402] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
403] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
404] 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
405] 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.
406] 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
407] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
408] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
409] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
410] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
411] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
412] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
413] 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.
414] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
415] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
416] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
417] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
418] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
419] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
420] 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.
421] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
422] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
423] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
424] 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 .
425] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
426] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
427] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
428] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
429] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
430] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
431] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
432] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
433] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
434] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
435] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
436] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
437] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
438] 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)
439] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
440] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
441] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
442] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
443] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
444] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
445] 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
446] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
447] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
448] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
449] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
450] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
451] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
452] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
453] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
454] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
455] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
456] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
457] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
458] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
459] 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.
460] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
461] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
462] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
463] 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)
464] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
465] 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.
466] 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.
467] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
468] 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
469] 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
470] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
471] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
472] 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.
473] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
474] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
475] 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.
476] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
477] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
478] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
479] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
480] 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.
481] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
482] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
483] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
484] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
485] 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.
486] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
487] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
488] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
489] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
490] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
491] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
492] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
493] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
494] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
495] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
496] 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.
497] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
498] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
499] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
500] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
501] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
502] 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.
503] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
504] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
505] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
506] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
507] 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.
508] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
509] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
510] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
511] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
512] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
513] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
514] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
515] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
516] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
517] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
518] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
519] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
520] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
521] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
522] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
523] 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.
524] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
525] 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
526] 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.
527] 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
528] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
529] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
530] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
531] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
532] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
533] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
534] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
535] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
536] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
537] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
538] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
539] 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.
540] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
541] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
542] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
543] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
544] 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)
545] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
546] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
547] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
548] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
549] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
550] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
551] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
552] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
553] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
554] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
555] 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.
556] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
557] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
558] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
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] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
561] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
562] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
563] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
564] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
565] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
566] 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)
567] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
568] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
569] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
570] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
571] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
572] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
573] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
574] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
575] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
576] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
577] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
578] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
579] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
580] 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)
581] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
582] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
583] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
584] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
585] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
586] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
587] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
588] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
589] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
590] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
591] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
592] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
593] 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)
594] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
595] 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
596] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
597] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
598] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
599] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
600] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half