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1] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
2] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
3] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
4] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
5] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
6] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
7] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
8] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
9] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
10] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
11] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
12] 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
13] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
14] 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.
15] 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.
16] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
17] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
18] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
19] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
20] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
21] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
22] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
23] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
24] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
25] 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
26] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
27] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
28] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
29] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
30] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
31] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
32] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
33] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
34] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
35] 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.
36] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
37] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
38] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
39] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
40] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
41] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
42] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
43] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
44] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
45] 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
46] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
47] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
48] 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
49] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
50] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
51] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
52] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
53] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
54] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
55] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
56] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
57] 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
58] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
59] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
60] 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)
61] 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)
62] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
63] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
64] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
65] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
66] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
67] 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.
68] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
69] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
70] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
71] 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
72] 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)
73] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
74] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
75] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
76] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
77] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
78] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
79] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
80] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
81] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
82] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
83] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
84] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
85] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
86] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
87] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
88] 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)
89] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
90] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
91] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
92] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
93] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
94] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
95] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
96] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
97] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
98] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
99] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
100] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
101] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
102] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
103] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
104] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
105] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
106] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
107] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
108] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
109] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
110] 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.
111] 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.
112] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
113] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
114] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
115] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
116] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
117] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
118] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
119] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
120] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
121] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
122] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
123] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
124] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
125] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
126] 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.
127] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
128] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
129] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
130] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
131] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
132] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
133] 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
134] 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)
135] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
136] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
137] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
138] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
139] 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.
140] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
141] 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
142] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
143] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
144] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
145] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
146] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
147] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
148] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
149] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
150] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
151] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
152] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
153] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
154] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
155] 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
156] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
157] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
158] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
159] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
160] 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.
161] 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
162] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
163] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
164] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
165] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
166] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
167] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
168] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
169] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
170] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
171] 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.
172] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
173] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
174] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
175] 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.
176] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
177] 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.
178] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
179] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
180] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
181] 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
182] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
183] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
184] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
185] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
186] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
187] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
188] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
189] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
190] 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
191] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
192] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
193] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
194] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
195] 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)
196] 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
197] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
198] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
199] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
200] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
201] 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.
202] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
203] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
204] 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.”
205] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
206] 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
207] 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
208] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
209] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
210] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
211] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
212] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
213] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
214] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
215] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
216] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
217] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
218] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
219] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
220] 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 .
221] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
222] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
223] 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)
224] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
225] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
226] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
227] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
228] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
229] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
230] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
231] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
232] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
233] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
234] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
235] 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
236] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
237] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
238] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
239] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
240] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
241] 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)
242] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
243] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
244] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
245] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
246] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
247] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
248] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
249] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
250] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
251] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
252] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
253] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
254] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
255] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
256] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
257] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
258] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
259] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
260] 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.
261] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
262] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
263] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
264] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
265] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
266] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
267] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
268] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
269] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
270] 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
271] 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
272] 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)
273] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
274] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
275] 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.
276] 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
277] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
278] 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
279] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
280] 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
281] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
282] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
283] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
284] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
285] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
286] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
287] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
288] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
289] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
290] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
291] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
292] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
293] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
294] 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
295] 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.
296] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
297] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
298] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
299] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
300] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
301] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
302] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
303] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
304] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
305] 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.
306] 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
307] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
308] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
309] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
310] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
311] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
312] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
313] 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)
314] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
315] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
316] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
317] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
318] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
319] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
320] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
321] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
322] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
323] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
324] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
325] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
326] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
328] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
329] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
330] 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
331] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
332] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
333] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
334] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
335] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
336] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
337] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
338] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
339] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
340] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
341] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
342] 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.
343] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
344] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
345] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
347] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
348] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
349] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
350] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
351] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
352] 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)
353] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
354] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
355] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
356] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
357] 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.
358] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
359] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
360] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
361] 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.
362] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
363] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
364] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
365] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
366] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
367] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
368] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
369] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
370] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
371] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
372] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
373] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
374] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
375] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
376] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
377] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
378] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
379] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
380] 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)
381] 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.
382] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
383] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
384] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
385] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
386] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
387] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
388] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
389] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
390] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
391] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
392] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
393] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
394] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
395] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
396] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
397] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
398] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
399] 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]
400] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
401] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
402] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
403] 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
404] 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
405] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
406] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
407] 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.
408] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
409] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
410] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
411] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
412] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
413] 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)
414] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
415] 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
416] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
417] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
418] 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)
419] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
420] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
421] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
422] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
423] 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.
424] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
425] 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)
426] 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
427] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
428] 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
429] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
430] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
431] 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.
432] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
433] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
434] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
435] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
436] 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)
437] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
438] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
439] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
440] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
441] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
442] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
443] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
444] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
445] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
446] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
447] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
448] 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.
449] 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
450] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
451] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
452] 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
453] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
454] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
455] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
456] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
457] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
458] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
459] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
460] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
461] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
462] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
463] 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
464] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
465] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
466] 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
467] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
468] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
469] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
470] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
471] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
472] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
473] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
474] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
475] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
476] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
477] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
478] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
479] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
480] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
481] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
482] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
483] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
484] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
485] 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.
486] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
487] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
488] 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.
489] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
490] 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)
491] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
492] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
493] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
494] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
495] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
497] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
498] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
499] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
500] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
501] 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
502] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
503] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
504] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
505] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
506] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
507] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
508] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
509] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
510] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
511] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
512] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
513] 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
514] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
515] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
516] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
517] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
518] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
519] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
520] 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
521] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
522] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
523] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
524] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
525] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
526] 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.
527] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
528] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
529] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
530] 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).
531] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
532] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
533] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
534] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
535] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
536] 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)
537] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
538] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
539] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
540] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
541] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
542] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
543] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
544] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
545] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
546] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
547] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
548] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
549] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
550] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
551] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
552] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
553] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
554] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
555] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
556] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
557] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
558] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
559] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
560] 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
561] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
562] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
563] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
564] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
565] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
566] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
567] 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
568] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
569] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
570] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
571] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
572] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
573] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
574] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
575] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
576] 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)
577] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
578] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
579] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
580] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
581] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
582] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
583] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
584] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
585] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
586] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
587] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
588] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
589] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
590] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
591] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
592] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
593] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
594] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
595] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
596] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
597] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
598] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
599] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
600] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.