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1] 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
2] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
3] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
4] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
5] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
6] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
7] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
8] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
9] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
10] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
11] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
12] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
13] 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.
14] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
15] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
16] 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)
17] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
18] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
19] 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)
20] 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.
21] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
22] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
23] 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
24] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
25] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
26] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
27] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
28] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
29] 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.
30] 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)
31] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
32] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
33] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
34] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
35] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
36] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
37] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
38] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
39] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
40] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
41] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
42] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
43] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
44] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
45] 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.”
46] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
47] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
48] 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)
49] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
50] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
51] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
52] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
53] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
54] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
55] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
56] 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.
57] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
58] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
59] 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
60] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
61] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
62] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
63] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
64] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
65] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
66] 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.
67] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
68] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
69] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
70] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
71] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
72] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
73] 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)
74] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
75] 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)
76] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
77] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
78] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
79] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
80] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
81] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
82] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
83] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
84] 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]
85] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
86] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
87] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
88] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
89] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
90] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
91] 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.
92] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
93] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
94] 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
95] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
96] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
97] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
98] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
99] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
100] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
101] Commonsense is not so common.
102] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
103] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
104] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
105] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
106] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
107] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
108] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
109] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
110] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
111] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
112] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
113] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
114] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
115] 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).
116] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
117] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
118] 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 .
119] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
120] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
121] 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.
122] 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.
123] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
124] 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.
125] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
126] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
127] 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.
128] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
129] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
130] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
131] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
132] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
133] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
134] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
135] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
136] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
137] 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).
138] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
139] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
140] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
141] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
142] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
143] 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
144] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
145] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
146] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
147] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
148] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
149] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
150] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
151] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
152] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
153] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
154] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
155] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
156] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
157] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
158] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
159] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
160] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
161] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
162] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
163] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
164] 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.
165] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
166] 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.
167] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
168] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
169] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
170] 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
171] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
172] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
173] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
174] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
175] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
176] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
177] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
178] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
179] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
180] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
181] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
182] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
183] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
184] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
185] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
186] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
187] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
188] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
189] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
190] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
191] 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
192] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
193] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
194] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
195] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
196] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
197] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
198] 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
199] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
200] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
201] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
202] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
203] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
204] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
205] 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)
206] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
207] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
208] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
209] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
210] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
211] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
212] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
213] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
214] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
215] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
216] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
217] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
218] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
219] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
220] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
221] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
222] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
223] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
224] 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.
225] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
226] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
227] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
228] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
229] 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.
230] 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
231] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
232] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
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] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
235] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
236] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
237] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
238] 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
239] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
240] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
241] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
242] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
243] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
244] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
245] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
246] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
247] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
248] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
249] 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
250] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
251] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
252] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
253] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
254] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
255] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
256] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
257] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
258] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
259] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
260] 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
261] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
262] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
263] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
264] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
265] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
266] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
267] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
268] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
269] 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
270] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
271] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
272] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
273] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
274] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
275] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
276] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
277] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
278] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
279] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
280] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
281] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
282] 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
283] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
284] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
285] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
286] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
287] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
288] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
289] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
290] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
291] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
292] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
293] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
294] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
295] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
296] 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
297] 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)
298] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
299] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
300] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
301] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
302] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
303] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
304] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
305] 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
306] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
307] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
308] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
309] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
310] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
311] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
312] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
313] 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
314] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
315] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
316] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
317] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
318] 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.
319] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
320] 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.
321] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
322] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
323] 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)
324] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
325] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
326] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
327] 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
328] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
329] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
330] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
331] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
332] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
333] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
334] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
335] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
336] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
337] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
338] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
339] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
340] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
341] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
342] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
343] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
344] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
345] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
346] 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.
347] 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.
348] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
349] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
350] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
351] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
352] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
353] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
354] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
355] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
356] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
357] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
358] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
359] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
360] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
361] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
362] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
363] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
364] 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
365] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
366] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
367] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
368] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
369] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
370] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
371] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
372] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
373] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
374] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
375] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
376] 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.
377] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
378] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
379] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
380] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
381] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
382] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
383] 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.
384] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
385] 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.
386] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
387] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
388] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
389] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
390] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
391] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
392] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
393] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
394] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
395] 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
396] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
397] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
398] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
399] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
400] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
401] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
402] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
403] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
404] 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.
405] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
406] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
407] 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
408] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
409] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
410] 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.
411] 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)
412] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
413] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
414] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
415] 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
416] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
417] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
418] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
419] 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.
420] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
421] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
422] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
423] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
424] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
425] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
426] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
427] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
428] 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.
429] 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)
430] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
431] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
432] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
433] 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
434] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
435] 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.
436] 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)
437] 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.
438] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
439] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
440] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
441] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
442] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
443] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
444] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
445] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
446] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
447] 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.
448] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
449] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
450] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
451] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
452] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
453] 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
454] 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)
455] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
456] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
457] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
458] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
459] 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)
460] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
461] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
462] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
463] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
464] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
465] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
466] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
467] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
468] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
469] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
470] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
471] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
472] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
473] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
474] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
475] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
476] 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.
477] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
478] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
479] 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.
480] 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.
481] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
482] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
483] 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).
484] 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
485] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
486] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
487] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
488] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
489] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
490] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
491] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
492] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
493] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
494] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
495] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
496] 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
497] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
498] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
499] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
500] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
501] 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]
502] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
503] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
504] 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
505] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
506] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
507] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
508] 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)
509] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
510] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
511] 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).
512] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
513] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
514] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
515] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
516] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
517] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
518] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
519] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
520] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
521] 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.
522] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
523] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
524] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
525] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
526] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
527] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
528] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
529] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
530] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
531] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
532] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
533] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
534] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
535] 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.
536] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
537] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
538] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
539] 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
540] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
541] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
542] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
543] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
544] 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
545] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
546] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
547] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
548] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
549] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
550] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
551] 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)
552] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
553] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
554] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
555] 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
556] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
557] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
558] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
559] 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
560] 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.
561] 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
562] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
563] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
564] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
565] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
566] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
567] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
568] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
569] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
570] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
571] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
572] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
573] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
574] 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
575] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
576] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
577] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
578] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
579] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
580] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
581] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
582] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
583] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
584] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
585] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
586] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
587] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
588] 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.
589] 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
590] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
591] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
592] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
593] 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
594] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
595] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
596] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
597] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
598] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
599] 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)
600] 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)