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1] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
2] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
3] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
4] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
5] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
6] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
7] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
8] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
9] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
10] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
11] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
12] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
13] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
14] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
15] 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.
16] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
17] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
18] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
19] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
20] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
21] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
22] 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
23] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
24] 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.
25] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
26] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
27] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
28] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
29] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
30] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
31] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
32] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
33] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
34] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
35] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
36] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
37] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
38] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
39] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
40] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
41] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
42] 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)
43] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
44] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
45] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] 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.
47] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
48] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
50] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
51] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
52] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
53] 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).
54] 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.
55] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
56] 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.
57] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
58] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
59] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
60] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
61] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
62] 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)
63] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
64] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
65] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
66] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
67] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
68] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
69] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
70] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
71] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
72] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
73] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
74] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
75] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
76] 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
77] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
78] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
79] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
80] 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
81] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
82] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
83] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
84] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
85] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
86] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
87] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
88] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
89] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
90] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
91] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
92] 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.
93] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
94] 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.
95] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
96] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
97] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
98] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
99] 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
100] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
101] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
102] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
103] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
104] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
105] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
106] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
107] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
108] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
109] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
110] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
111] 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.
112] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
113] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
114] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
115] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
117] 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
118] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
119] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
120] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
121] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
122] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
123] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
124] 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
125] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
126] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
127] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
128] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
129] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
130] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
131] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
132] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
133] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
134] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
135] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
136] 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
137] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
138] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
139] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
140] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
141] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
142] 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.
143] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
144] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
145] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
146] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
147] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
148] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
149] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
150] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
151] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
152] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
153] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
154] 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
155] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
156] 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.
157] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
158] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
159] Commonsense is not so common.
160] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
161] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
162] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
163] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
164] 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.
165] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
166] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
167] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
168] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
169] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
170] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
171] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
172] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
173] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
174] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
175] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
176] 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.
177] 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]
178] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
179] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
180] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
181] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
182] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
183] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
184] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
185] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
186] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
187] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
189] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
190] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
191] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
192] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
193] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
194] 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.
195] 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)
196] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
197] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
198] 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)
199] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
200] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
201] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
202] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
203] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
204] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
205] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
206] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
207] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
208] 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.
209] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
210] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
211] 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.
212] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
213] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
214] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
215] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
216] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
217] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
218] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
219] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
220] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
221] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
222] 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.
223] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
224] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
225] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
226] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
227] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
228] 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.
229] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
230] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
231] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
232] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
233] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
234] 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
235] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
236] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
237] 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.
238] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
239] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
240] 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
241] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
242] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
243] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
245] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
246] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
247] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
248] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
249] 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.
250] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
251] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
252] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
253] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
254] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
255] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
256] 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
257] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
258] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
259] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
260] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
261] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
262] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
263] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
264] 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
265] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
266] 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)
267] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
268] 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)
269] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
270] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
271] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
272] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
273] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
274] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
275] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
276] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
277] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
278] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
279] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
280] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
281] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
282] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
283] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
284] 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.
285] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
286] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
287] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
288] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
289] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
290] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
291] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
292] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
293] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
294] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
295] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
296] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
297] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
298] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
299] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
300] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
301] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
302] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
303] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
304] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
305] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
306] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
307] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
308] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
309] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
310] 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.
311] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
312] 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)
313] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
314] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
315] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
316] 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.
317] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
318] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
319] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
320] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
321] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
322] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
323] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
324] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
325] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
326] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
327] 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)
328] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
329] 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
330] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
331] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
332] 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
333] 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)
334] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
335] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
336] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
337] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
338] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
339] 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)
340] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
341] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
342] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
343] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
344] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
345] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
346] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
347] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
348] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
349] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
350] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
351] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
352] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
353] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
354] 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.”
355] 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
356] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
357] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
358] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
359] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
360] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
361] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
362] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
363] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
364] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
365] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
366] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
367] 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.
368] 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
369] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
370] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
371] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
372] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
373] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
374] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
375] 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
376] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
377] 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.
378] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
379] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
380] 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
381] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
382] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
383] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
384] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
385] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
386] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
387] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
388] 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.
389] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
390] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
391] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
392] 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
393] 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)
394] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
395] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
396] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
397] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
398] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
399] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
400] 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.
401] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
402] 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.
403] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
404] 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.
405] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
406] 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
407] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
408] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
409] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
410] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
411] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
412] 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)
413] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
414] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
415] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
416] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
417] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
418] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
419] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
420] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
421] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
422] 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
423] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
424] 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.
425] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
426] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
427] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
428] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
429] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
430] 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.
431] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
432] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
433] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
434] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
435] 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.
436] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
437] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
438] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
439] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
440] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
441] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
442] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
443] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
444] 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)
445] 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.
446] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
447] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
448] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
449] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
450] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
451] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
452] 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
453] 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.
454] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
455] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
456] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
457] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
458] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
459] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
460] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
461] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
462] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
463] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
464] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
465] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
466] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
467] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
468] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
469] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
470] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
471] 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.
472] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
473] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
474] 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.
475] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
476] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
477] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
478] 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.
479] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
480] 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
481] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
482] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
483] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
484] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
485] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
486] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
487] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
488] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
489] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
490] 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.
491] 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
492] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
493] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
494] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
495] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
496] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
497] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
498] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
499] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
500] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
501] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
502] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
503] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
504] 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)
505] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
506] 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.”
507] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
508] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
509] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
510] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
511] 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 .
512] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
513] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
514] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
515] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
516] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
517] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
518] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
519] 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
520] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
521] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
522] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
523] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
524] 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)
525] 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.
526] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
527] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
528] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
529] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
530] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
531] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
532] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
533] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
534] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
535] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
536] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
537] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
538] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
539] 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
540] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
541] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
542] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
543] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
544] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
545] 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)
546] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
547] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
548] 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)
549] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
550] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
551] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
552] 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.
553] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
554] 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.
555] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
556] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
557] 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.
558] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
559] 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.
560] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
561] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
562] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
563] 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
564] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
565] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
566] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
567] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
568] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
569] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
570] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
571] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
572] 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
573] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
574] 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.
575] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
576] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
577] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
578] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
579] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
580] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
581] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
582] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
583] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
584] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
585] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
586] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
587] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
588] 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
589] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
590] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
591] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
592] 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
593] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
594] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
595] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
596] 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.
597] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
598] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
599] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
600] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.