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1] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
2] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
3] 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
4] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
5] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
6] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
7] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
8] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
9] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
10] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
11] 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
12] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
13] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
14] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
15] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
16] 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
17] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
18] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
19] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
20] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
22] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
23] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
24] 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.
25] 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)
26] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
27] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
28] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
29] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
30] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
31] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
32] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
33] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
34] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
35] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
36] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
37] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
38] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
39] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
40] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
41] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
42] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
43] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
44] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
45] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
46] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
47] 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.
48] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
49] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
50] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
51] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
52] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
53] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
54] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
55] 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
56] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
57] 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
58] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
59] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
60] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
61] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
62] 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.
63] 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
64] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
65] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
66] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
67] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
68] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
69] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
70] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
71] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
72] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
73] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
74] 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
75] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
76] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
77] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
78] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
79] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
80] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
81] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
82] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
83] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
84] 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)
85] 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
86] 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
87] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
88] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
89] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
90] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
91] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
92] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
93] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
94] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
95] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
96] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
98] 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.
99] 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
100] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
101] 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.
102] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
103] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
104] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
105] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
106] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
107] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
108] 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)
109] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
110] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
111] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
112] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
113] 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)
114] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
115] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
116] 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
117] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
118] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
119] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
120] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
121] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
122] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
123] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
124] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
125] 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).
126] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
127] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
128] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
129] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
130] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
131] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
132] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
133] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
134] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
135] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
136] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
137] 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.
138] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
139] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
140] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
141] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
142] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
143] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
144] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
145] 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)
146] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
147] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
148] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
149] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
150] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
151] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
152] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
153] 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
154] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
155] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
156] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
157] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
158] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
159] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
160] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
161] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
162] 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
163] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
164] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
165] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
166] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
167] 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
168] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
169] 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.
170] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
171] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
172] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
173] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
174] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
175] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
176] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
177] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
178] 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.
179] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
180] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
181] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
182] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
183] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
184] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
185] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
186] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
187] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
188] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
189] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
190] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
191] 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.
192] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
193] 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
194] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
195] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
196] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
197] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
198] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
199] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
200] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
201] 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.
202] 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
203] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
204] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
205] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
206] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
207] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
208] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
209] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
210] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
211] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
212] 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)
213] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
214] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
215] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
216] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
217] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
218] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
219] 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.
220] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
221] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
222] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
223] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
224] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
225] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
226] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
227] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
228] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
229] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
230] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
231] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
232] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
233] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
234] 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)
235] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
236] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
237] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
238] 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.
239] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
240] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
241] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
242] 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.
243] 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.
244] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
245] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
246] 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
247] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
248] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
249] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
250] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
251] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
252] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
253] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
254] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
255] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
256] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
257] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
258] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
259] 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.
260] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
261] 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 .
262] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
263] 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
264] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
265] 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)
266] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
267] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
268] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
269] 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
270] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
271] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
272] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
273] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
274] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
275] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
276] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
277] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
278] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
279] 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.
280] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
281] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
282] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
283] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
284] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
285] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
286] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
287] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
288] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
289] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
290] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
291] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
292] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
293] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
294] Commonsense is not so common.
295] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
296] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
297] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
298] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
299] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
300] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
301] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
302] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
303] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
304] 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
305] 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
306] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
307] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
308] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
309] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
310] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
311] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
312] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
313] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
314] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
315] 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.
316] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
317] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
318] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
319] 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.
320] 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.
321] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
322] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
323] 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.
324] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
325] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
326] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
327] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
328] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
329] 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
330] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
331] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
332] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
333] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
334] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
335] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
336] 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
337] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
338] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
339] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
340] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
341] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
342] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
343] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
344] 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.
345] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
346] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
347] 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)
348] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
349] 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.
350] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
351] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
352] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
353] 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.
354] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
355] 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.
356] 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
357] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
358] 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.
359] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
360] 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.
361] 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)
362] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
363] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
364] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
365] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
366] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
367] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
368] 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.
369] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
370] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
371] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
372] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
373] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
374] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
375] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
376] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
377] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
378] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
379] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
380] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
381] 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.
382] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
383] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
384] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
385] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
386] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
387] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
388] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
389] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
390] 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.
391] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
392] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
393] 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
394] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
395] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
396] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
397] 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.
398] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
399] 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
400] 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
401] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
402] 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).
403] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
404] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
405] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
406] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
407] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
408] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
409] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
410] 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.
411] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
412] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
413] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
414] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
415] 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)
416] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
417] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
418] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
419] 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)
420] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
421] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
422] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
423] 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
424] 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.
425] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
426] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
427] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
428] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
429] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
430] 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
431] 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.
432] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
433] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
434] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
435] 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
436] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
437] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
438] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
439] 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.
440] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
441] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
442] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
443] 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.
444] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
445] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
446] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
447] 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.
448] 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
449] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
450] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
451] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
452] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
453] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
454] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
455] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
456] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
457] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
458] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
459] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
460] 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.
461] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
462] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
463] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
464] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
465] 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
466] 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
467] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
468] 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.
469] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
470] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
471] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
472] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
473] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
474] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
475] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
476] 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.
477] 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
478] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
479] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
480] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
481] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
482] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
483] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
484] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
485] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
486] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
487] 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.
488] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
489] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
490] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
491] 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
492] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
493] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
494] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
495] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
496] 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.
497] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
498] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
499] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
500] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
501] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
502] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
503] 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
504] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
505] 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
506] 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
507] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
508] 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.
509] 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
510] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
511] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
512] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
513] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
514] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
515] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
516] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
517] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
518] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
519] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
520] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
521] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
522] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
523] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
524] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
525] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
526] 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.
527] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
528] 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
529] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
530] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
531] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
532] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
533] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
534] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
535] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
536] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
537] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
538] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
539] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
540] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
541] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
542] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
543] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
544] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
545] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
546] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
547] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
548] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
549] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
550] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
551] 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)
552] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
553] 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
554] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
555] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
556] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
557] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
558] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
559] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
560] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
561] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
562] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
563] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
564] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
565] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
566] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
567] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
568] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
569] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
570] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
571] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
572] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
573] 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
574] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
575] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
576] 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)
577] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
578] 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
579] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
580] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
581] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
582] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
583] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
584] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
585] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
586] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
587] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
588] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
589] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
590] 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.
591] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
592] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
593] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
594] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
595] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
596] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
597] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
598] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
599] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
600] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis