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1] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
2] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
3] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
4] 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.
5] 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.
6] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
7] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
8] 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.
9] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
10] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
11] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
12] 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)
13] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
14] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
15] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
16] 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
17] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
18] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
19] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
20] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
21] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
22] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
23] 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
24] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
25] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
26] 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
27] 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
28] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
29] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
30] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
31] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
33] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
34] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
35] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
36] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
37] 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
38] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
39] 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.
40] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
41] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
42] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
43] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
44] 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.
45] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
46] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
47] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
48] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
49] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
50] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
51] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
52] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
53] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
54] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
55] 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.
56] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
57] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
58] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
59] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
60] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
61] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
62] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
63] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
64] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
65] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
66] 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
67] 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]
68] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
69] 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.
70] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
71] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
72] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
73] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
74] 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.
75] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
76] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
77] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
78] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
79] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
80] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
81] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
82] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
83] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
84] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
85] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
86] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
87] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
88] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
89] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
90] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
91] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
92] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
93] 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
94] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
95] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
96] 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
97] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
98] 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
99] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
100] 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.
101] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
102] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
103] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
104] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
105] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
106] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
107] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
108] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
109] 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.
110] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
111] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
112] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
113] 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)
114] 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.
115] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
116] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
117] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
118] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
119] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
120] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
121] 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
122] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
123] 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)
124] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
125] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
126] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
127] 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
128] 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.
129] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
130] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
131] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
132] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
133] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
134] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
135] 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.
136] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
137] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
138] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
139] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
140] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
141] 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)
142] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
143] 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]
144] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
145] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
146] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
147] 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)
148] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
149] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
150] 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.
151] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
152] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
153] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
154] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
155] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
156] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
157] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
158] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
159] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
160] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
161] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
162] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
163] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
164] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
165] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
166] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
167] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
168] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
169] 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.
170] 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
171] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
172] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
173] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
174] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
175] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
176] 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.
177] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
178] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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179] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
180] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
181] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
182] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
183] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
184] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
185] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
186] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
187] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
188] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
189] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
190] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
191] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
192] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
193] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
194] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
195] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
196] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
197] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
198] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
199] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
200] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
201] 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.
202] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
203] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
204] 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.
205] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
206] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
207] 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)
208] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
209] 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.
210] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
211] 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
212] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
213] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
214] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
215] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
216] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
217] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
218] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
219] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
220] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
221] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
222] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
223] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
224] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
225] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
226] 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.
227] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
228] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
229] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
230] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
231] 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
232] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
233] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
234] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
235] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
236] 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
237] 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.
238] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
239] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
240] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
241] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
242] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
243] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
244] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
245] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
246] 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
247] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
248] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
249] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
250] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
251] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
252] 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.
253] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
254] 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
255] 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.
256] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
257] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
258] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
259] 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
260] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
261] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
262] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
263] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
264] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
265] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
266] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
267] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
268] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
269] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
270] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
271] 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
272] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
273] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
274] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
275] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
276] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
277] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
278] 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
279] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
280] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
281] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
282] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
283] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
284] 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)
285] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
286] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
287] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
288] 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.
289] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
290] 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)
291] 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.”
292] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
293] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
294] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
295] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
296] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
297] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
298] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
299] 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)
300] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
301] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
302] 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
303] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
304] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
305] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
306] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
307] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
308] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
309] 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.
310] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
311] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
312] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
313] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
314] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
315] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
316] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
317] 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
318] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
319] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
320] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
321] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
322] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
323] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
324] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
325] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
326] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
327] 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)
328] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
329] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
330] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
331] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
332] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
333] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
334] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
335] 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)
336] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
337] 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
338] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
339] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
340] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
341] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
342] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
343] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
344] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
345] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
346] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
347] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
348] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
349] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
350] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
351] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
352] 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.
353] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
354] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
355] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
356] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
357] 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.
358] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
359] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
360] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
361] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
362] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
363] 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.
364] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
365] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
366] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
367] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
368] 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.
369] 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
370] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
371] 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.
372] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
373] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
374] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
375] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
376] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
377] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
378] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
379] 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
380] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
381] 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
382] 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).
383] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
384] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
385] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
386] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
387] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
388] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
389] 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
390] 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
391] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
392] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
393] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
394] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
395] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
396] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
397] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
398] 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
399] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
400] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
401] 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
402] 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.
403] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
404] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
405] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
406] 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)
407] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
408] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
409] 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
410] 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
411] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
412] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
413] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
414] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
415] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
416] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
417] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
418] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
419] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
420] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
421] 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)
422] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
423] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
424] 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.
425] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
426] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
427] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
428] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
429] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
430] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
431] 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.
432] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
433] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
434] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
436] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
437] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
438] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
439] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
440] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
441] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
442] 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.
443] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
444] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
445] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
446] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
447] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
448] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
449] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
450] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
451] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
452] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
453] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
454] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
455] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
456] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
457] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
458] 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
459] 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).
460] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
461] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
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] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
464] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
465] 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.
466] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
467] 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.
468] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
469] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
470] 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).
471] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
472] 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.
473] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
474] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
475] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
476] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
477] 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.
478] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
479] 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.
480] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
481] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
482] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
483] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
484] 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.
485] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
486] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
487] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
488] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
489] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
490] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
491] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
492] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
493] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
494] 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
495] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
496] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
497] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
498] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
499] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
500] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
501] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
502] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
503] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
504] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
505] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
506] 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
507] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
508] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
509] 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.
510] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
511] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
512] 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.
513] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
514] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
515] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
516] 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
517] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
518] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
519] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
520] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
521] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
522] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
523] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
524] 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.
525] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
526] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
527] 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)
528] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
529] 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 .
530] 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
531] 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.
532] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
533] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
534] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
535] 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.
536] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
537] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
538] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
539] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
540] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
541] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
542] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
543] 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.
544] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
545] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
546] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
547] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
548] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
549] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
550] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
551] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
552] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
553] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
554] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
555] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
556] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
557] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
558] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
559] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
560] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
561] 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
562] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
563] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
564] 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
565] 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
566] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
567] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
568] 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.
569] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
570] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
571] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
572] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
573] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
574] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
575] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
576] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
577] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
578] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
579] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
580] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
581] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
582] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
583] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
584] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
585] 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.
586] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
587] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
588] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
589] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
590] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
591] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
592] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
593] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
594] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
595] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
596] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
597] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
598] 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.
599] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
600] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward