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1] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
2] 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.
3] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
4] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
5] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] 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)
7] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
8] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
9] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
10] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
11] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
12] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
13] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
14] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
15] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
16] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
17] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
18] 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.
19] 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 .
20] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
21] 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
22] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
23] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
24] 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
25] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
26] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
27] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
28] 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.
29] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
30] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
31] 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)
32] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
33] 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
34] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
35] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
36] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
37] 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.
38] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
39] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
40] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
41] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
42] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
43] 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.”
44] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
45] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
46] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
47] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
48] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
49] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
50] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
51] 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
52] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
53] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
54] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
55] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
56] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
57] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
58] 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.
59] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
60] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
61] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
62] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
63] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
64] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
65] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
66] 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
67] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
68] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
69] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
70] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
71] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
72] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
73] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
74] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
75] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
76] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
77] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
78] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
79] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
80] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
81] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
82] 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.
83] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
84] 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
85] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
86] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
87] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
88] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
89] 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
90] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
91] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
92] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
93] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
94] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
95] 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
96] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
97] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
98] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
99] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
100] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
101] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
102] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
103] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
104] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
105] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
106] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
107] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
108] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
109] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
110] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
111] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
112] 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).
113] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
114] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
115] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
116] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
117] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
118] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
119] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
120] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
121] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
122] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
123] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
124] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
125] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
126] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
127] 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)
128] 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)
129] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
130] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
131] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
132] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
133] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
134] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
135] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
136] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
137] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
138] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
139] 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.
140] 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.
141] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
142] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
143] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
144] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
145] 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.
146] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
147] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
148] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
149] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
150] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
151] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
152] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
153] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
154] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
155] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
156] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
157] 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.
158] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
159] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
160] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
161] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
162] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
163] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
164] 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
165] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
166] 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
167] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
168] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
169] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
170] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
171] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
172] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
173] 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
174] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
175] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
176] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
177] 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.
178] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
179] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
180] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
181] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
182] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
183] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
184] 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]
185] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
186] 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
187] 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.
188] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
189] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
190] 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
191] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
192] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
193] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
194] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
195] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
196] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
197] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
198] 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.
199] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
200] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
201] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
202] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
203] 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
204] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
205] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
206] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
207] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
208] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
209] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
210] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
211] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
212] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
213] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
214] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
215] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
216] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
217] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
218] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
219] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
220] 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.
221] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
222] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
223] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
224] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
225] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
226] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
227] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
228] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
229] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
230] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
231] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
232] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
233] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
234] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
235] 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.
236] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
237] 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.
238] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
239] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
240] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
241] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
242] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
243] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
245] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
246] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
247] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
248] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
249] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
250] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
251] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
252] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
253] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
254] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
255] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
256] 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.
257] 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
258] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
259] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
260] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
261] Commonsense is not so common.
262] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
263] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
264] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
265] 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.
266] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
267] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
268] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
269] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
270] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
271] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
272] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
273] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
274] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
275] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
276] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
277] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
278] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
279] 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
280] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
281] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
282] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
283] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
284] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
285] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
286] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
287] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
288] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
289] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
290] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
291] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
292] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
293] 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.
294] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
295] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
296] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
297] 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
298] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
299] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
300] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
301] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
302] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
303] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
304] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
305] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
306] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
307] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
308] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
309] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
310] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
311] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
312] 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
313] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
314] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
315] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
316] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
317] 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.
318] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
319] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
320] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
321] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
322] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
323] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
324] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
325] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
326] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
327] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
328] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
329] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
330] 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.
331] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
332] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
333] 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
334] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
335] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
336] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
337] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
338] 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)
339] 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.
340] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
341] 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
342] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
343] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
344] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
345] 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
346] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
347] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
348] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
349] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
350] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
351] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
352] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
353] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
354] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
355] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
356] 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)
357] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
358] 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
359] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
360] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
361] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
362] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
363] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
364] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
365] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
366] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
367] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
368] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
369] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
370] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
371] 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)
372] 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)
373] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
374] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
375] 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)
376] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
377] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
378] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
379] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
380] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
381] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
382] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
383] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
384] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
385] 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.
386] 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
387] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
388] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
389] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
390] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
391] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
392] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
393] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
394] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
395] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
396] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
397] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
398] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
399] 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
400] 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.
401] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
402] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
403] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
404] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
405] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
406] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
407] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
408] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
409] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
410] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
411] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
412] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
413] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
414] 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.
415] 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.
416] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
417] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
418] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
419] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
420] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
421] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
422] 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
423] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
424] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
425] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
426] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
427] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
428] 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.
429] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
430] 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.
431] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
432] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
433] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
434] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
435] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
436] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
437] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
438] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
439] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
440] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
441] 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.
442] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
443] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
444] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
445] 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.
446] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
447] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
448] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
449] 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
450] 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)
451] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
452] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
453] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
454] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
455] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
456] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
457] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
458] 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)
459] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
460] 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
461] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
462] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
463] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
464] 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
465] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
466] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
467] 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.
468] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
469] 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
470] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
471] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
472] 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.
473] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
474] 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 .
475] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
476] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
477] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
478] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
479] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
480] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
481] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
482] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
483] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
484] 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
485] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
486] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
487] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
488] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
489] 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.
490] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
491] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
492] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
493] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
494] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
495] 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
496] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
497] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
498] 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
499] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
500] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
501] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
502] 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)
503] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
504] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
505] 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
506] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
507] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
508] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
509] 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.
510] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
511] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
512] 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
513] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
514] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
515] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
516] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
517] 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)
518] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
519] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
520] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
521] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
522] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
523] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
524] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
525] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
526] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
527] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
528] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
529] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
530] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
531] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
532] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
533] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
534] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
535] 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
536] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
537] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
538] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
539] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
540] 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)
541] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
542] 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.
543] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
544] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
545] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
546] 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.
547] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
548] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
549] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
550] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
551] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
552] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
553] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
554] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
555] 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
556] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
557] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
558] 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.
559] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
560] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
561] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
562] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
563] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
564] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
565] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
566] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
567] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
568] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
569] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
570] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
571] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
572] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
573] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
574] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
575] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
576] 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
577] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
578] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
579] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
580] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
581] 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)
582] 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.
583] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
584] 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
585] 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
586] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
587] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
588] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
589] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
590] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
591] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
592] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
593] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
594] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
595] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
596] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
597] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
598] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
599] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
600] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.