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1] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
2] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
3] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
4] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
5] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
6] 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)
7] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
8] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9] 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.
10] 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
11] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
12] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
13] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
14] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
15] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
16] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
17] 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)
18] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
19] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
20] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
21] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
22] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
23] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
24] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
25] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
26] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
27] 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)
28] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
29] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
30] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
31] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
32] 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)
33] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
34] 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
35] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
36] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
37] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
38] 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)
39] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
40] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
41] 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.
42] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
43] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
44] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
45] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
46] 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
47] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
48] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
49] 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.
50] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
51] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
52] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
53] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
54] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
55] 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.
56] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
57] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
58] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
59] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
60] 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.
61] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
62] 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.
63] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
64] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
65] 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 .
66] 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.
67] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
68] 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)
69] 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
70] 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.
71] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
72] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
73] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
74] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
75] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
76] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
77] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
78] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
79] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
80] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
81] 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.
82] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
83] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
84] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
85] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
86] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
87] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
88] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
89] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
90] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
91] Commonsense is not so common.
92] 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)
93] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
94] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
95] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
96] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
97] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
98] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
99] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
100] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
101] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
102] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
103] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
104] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
105] 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.
106] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
107] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
108] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
109] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
110] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
111] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
112] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
113] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
114] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
115] 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
116] 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).
117] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
118] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
119] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
120] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
121] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
122] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
123] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
124] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
125] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
126] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
127] 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
128] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
129] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
130] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
131] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
132] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
133] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
134] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
135] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
136] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
137] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
138] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
139] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
140] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
141] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
142] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
143] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
144] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
145] 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
146] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
147] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
148] 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
149] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
150] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
151] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
152] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
153] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
154] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
155] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
156] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
157] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
158] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
159] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
160] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
161] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
162] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
163] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
164] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
165] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
166] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
167] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
168] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
169] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
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] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
172] 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
173] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
174] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
175] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
176] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
177] 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.
178] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
179] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
180] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
181] 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.
182] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
183] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
184] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
185] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
186] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
187] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
188] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
189] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
190] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
191] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
192] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
193] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
194] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
195] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
196] 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.
197] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
198] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
199] 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
200] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
201] 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
202] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
203] 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
204] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
205] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
206] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
207] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
208] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
209] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
210] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
211] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
212] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
213] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
214] 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.
215] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
216] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
217] 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.
218] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
219] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
220] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
221] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
222] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
223] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
224] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
225] 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
226] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
227] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
228] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
229] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
230] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
231] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
232] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
233] 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
234] 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.
235] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
236] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
237] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
238] Commonsense is not so common.
239] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
240] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
241] 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)
242] 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)
243] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
244] 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.
245] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
246] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
247] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
248] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
249] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
250] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
251] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
252] 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.
253] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
254] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
255] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
256] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
257] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
258] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
259] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
260] 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.
261] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
262] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
263] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
264] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
265] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
266] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
267] 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
268] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
269] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
270] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
271] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
272] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
273] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
274] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
275] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
276] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
277] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
278] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
279] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
280] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
281] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
282] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
283] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
284] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
285] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
286] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
287] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
288] 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.
289] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
290] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
291] 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
292] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
293] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
294] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
295] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
296] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
297] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
298] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
299] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
300] 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
301] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
302] 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.
303] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
304] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
305] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
306] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
308] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
309] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
310] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
311] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
312] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
313] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
314] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
315] 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.
316] 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.
317] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
318] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
319] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
320] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
321] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
322] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
323] 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)
324] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
325] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
326] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
327] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
328] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
329] 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
330] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
331] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
332] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
333] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
334] 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.
335] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
336] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
337] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
338] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
339] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
340] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
341] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
342] 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.
343] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
344] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
345] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
346] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
347] 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)
348] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
349] 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)
350] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
351] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
352] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
353] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
354] 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.
355] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
356] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
357] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
358] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
359] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
360] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
361] 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
362] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
363] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
364] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
365] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
366] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
367] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
368] 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)
369] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
370] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
371] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
372] 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).
373] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
374] 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
375] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
376] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
377] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
378] 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.
379] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
380] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
381] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
382] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
383] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
384] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
385] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
386] 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
387] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
388] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
389] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
390] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
391] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
392] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
393] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
394] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
395] 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.
396] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
397] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
398] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
399] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
400] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
401] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
402] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
403] 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
404] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
405] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
406] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
407] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
408] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
409] 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)
410] 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
411] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
412] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
413] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
414] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
415] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
416] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
417] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
418] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
419] 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
420] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
421] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
422] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
423] 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
424] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
425] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
426] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
427] 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
428] 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]
429] 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
430] 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
431] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
432] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
433] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
434] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
435] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
436] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
437] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
438] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
439] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
440] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
441] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
442] 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
443] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
444] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
445] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
446] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
447] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
448] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
449] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
450] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
451] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
452] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
453] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
454] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
455] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
456] 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.
457] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
458] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
459] 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
460] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
461] 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.
462] 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.
463] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
464] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
465] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
466] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
467] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
468] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
469] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
470] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
471] 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.
472] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
473] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
474] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
475] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
476] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
477] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
478] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
479] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
480] 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.
481] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
482] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
483] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
484] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
485] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
487] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
488] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
489] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
490] 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
491] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
492] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
493] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
494] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
495] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
496] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
497] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
498] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
499] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
500] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
501] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
502] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
503] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
504] 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.
505] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
506] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
507] 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.
508] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
509] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
510] 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.
511] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
512] 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
513] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
514] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
515] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
516] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
517] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
518] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
519] 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
520] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
521] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
522] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
523] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
524] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
525] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
526] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
527] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
528] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
529] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
530] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
531] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
532] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
533] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
534] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
535] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
536] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
537] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
538] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
539] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
540] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
541] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
542] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
543] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
544] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
545] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
546] 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.
547] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
548] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
549] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
550] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
551] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
552] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
553] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
554] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
555] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
556] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
557] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
558] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
559] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
560] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
561] 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.
562] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
563] 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
564] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
565] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
566] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
567] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
568] 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)
569] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
570] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
571] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
572] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
573] 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.
574] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
575] 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
576] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
577] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
578] 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
579] 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.
580] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
581] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
582] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
583] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
584] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
585] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
586] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
587] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
588] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
589] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
590] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
591] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
592] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
593] 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
594] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
595] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
596] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
597] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
598] 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)
599] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
600] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard