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1] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
2] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
3] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
4] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
5] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
6] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
7] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
8] 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
9] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
10] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
11] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
12] 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
13] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
14] 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)
15] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
16] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
17] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
18] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
19] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
20] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
21] 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
22] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
23] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
24] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
25] 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
26] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
27] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
28] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
29] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
30] 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
31] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
32] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
33] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
34] 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
35] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
36] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
37] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
38] 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)
39] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
40] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
41] 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.
42] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
43] 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
44] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
45] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
46] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
47] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
48] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
49] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
50] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
51] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
52] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
53] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
54] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
55] 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
56] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
57] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
58] 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.
59] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
60] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
61] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
62] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
63] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
64] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
65] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
66] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
67] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
68] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
69] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
70] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
71] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
72] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
73] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
74] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
75] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
76] 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
77] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
78] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
79] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
80] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
81] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
82] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
83] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
84] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
85] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
86] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
87] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
88] 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)
89] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
90] 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
91] 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.
92] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
93] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
94] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
95] 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)
96] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
97] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
98] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
99] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
100] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
101] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
102] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
103] 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.
104] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
105] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
106] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
107] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
108] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
109] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
110] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
111] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
112] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
113] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
114] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
115] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
116] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
117] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
118] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
119] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
120] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
121] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
122] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
123] 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
124] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
125] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
126] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
127] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
128] 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.
129] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
130] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
131] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
132] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
133] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
134] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
135] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
136] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
137] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
138] 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.
139] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
140] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
141] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
142] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
143] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
144] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
145] 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.
146] 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.”
147] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
148] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
149] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
150] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
151] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
152] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
153] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
154] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
155] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
156] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
157] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
158] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
159] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
160] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
161] 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
162] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
163] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
164] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
165] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
166] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
167] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
168] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
169] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
170] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
171] 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.
172] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
173] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
174] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
175] 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.
176] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
177] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
178] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
179] 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.
180] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
181] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
182] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
183] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
184] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
185] 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.
186] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
187] 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.
188] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
189] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
190] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
191] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
192] 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.
193] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
194] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
195] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
196] 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.
197] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
198] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
199] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
200] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
201] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
202] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
203] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
204] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
205] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
206] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
207] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
208] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
209] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
210] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
211] 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.
212] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
213] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
214] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
215] 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.
216] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
217] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
218] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
219] 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.
220] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
221] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
222] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
223] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
224] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
225] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
226] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
227] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
228] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
229] 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.
230] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
231] 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)
232] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
233] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
234] 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)
235] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
236] 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.
237] 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.
238] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
239] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
240] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
241] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
242] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
243] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
244] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
245] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
246] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
247] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
248] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
249] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
250] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
251] 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
252] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
253] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
254] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
255] 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)
256] 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.
257] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
258] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
259] 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
260] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
261] 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
262] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
263] 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
264] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
265] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
266] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
267] 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)
268] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
269] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
270] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
271] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
272] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
273] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
274] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
275] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
276] 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.
277] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
278] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
279] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
280] 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)
281] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
282] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
283] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
284] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
285] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
286] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
287] 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
288] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
289] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
290] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
291] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
292] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
293] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
294] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
295] 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
296] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
297] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
298] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
299] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
300] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
301] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
302] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
303] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
304] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
305] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
306] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
307] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
308] 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
309] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
310] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
311] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
312] 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.
313] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
314] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
315] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
316] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
317] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
318] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
319] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
320] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
321] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
322] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
323] 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
324] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
325] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
326] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
327] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
328] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
329] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
330] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
331] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
332] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
333] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
334] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
335] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
336] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
337] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
338] 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]
339] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
340] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
341] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
342] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
343] 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.
344] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
345] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
346] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
347] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
348] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
349] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
350] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
351] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
352] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
353] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
354] 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
355] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
356] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
357] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
358] 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)
359] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
360] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
361] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
362] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
363] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
364] 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
365] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
366] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
367] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
368] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
369] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
370] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
371] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
372] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
373] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
374] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
375] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
376] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
377] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
378] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
379] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
380] 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
381] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
382] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
383] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
384] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
385] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
386] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
387] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
388] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
389] 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
390] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
391] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
392] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
393] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
394] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
395] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
396] 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.
397] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
398] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
399] 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)
400] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
401] 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)
402] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
403] 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
404] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
405] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
406] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
407] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
408] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
409] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
410] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
411] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
412] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
413] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
414] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
415] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
416] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
417] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
418] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
419] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
420] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
421] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
422] 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)
423] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
424] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
425] 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)
426] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
427] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
428] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
429] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
430] Commonsense is not so common.
431] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
432] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
433] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
434] 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
435] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
436] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
437] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
438] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
439] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
440] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
441] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
442] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
443] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
444] 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)
445] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
446] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
447] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
448] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
449] 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
450] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
451] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
452] 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.
453] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
454] 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
455] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
456] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
457] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
458] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
459] 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.
460] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
461] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
462] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
463] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
464] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
465] 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.
466] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
467] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
468] 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)
469] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
470] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
471] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
472] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
473] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
474] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
475] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
476] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
477] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
478] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
479] 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.
480] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
481] 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.
482] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
483] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
484] 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)
485] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
486] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
487] 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
488] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
489] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
490] 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.
491] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
492] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
493] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
494] 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.
495] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
496] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
497] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
498] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
499] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
500] 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
501] 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)
502] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
503] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
504] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
505] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
506] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
507] 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.
508] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
509] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
510] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
511] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
512] 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.
513] 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.
514] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
515] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
516] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
517] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
518] 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
519] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
520] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
521] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
522] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
523] 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
524] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
525] 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.
526] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
527] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
528] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
529] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
530] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
531] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
532] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
533] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
534] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
535] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
536] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
537] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
538] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
539] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
540] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
541] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
542] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
543] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
544] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
545] 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.
546] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
547] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
548] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
549] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
550] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
551] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
552] 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
553] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
554] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
555] 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
556] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
557] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
558] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
559] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
560] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
561] 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.
562] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
563] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
564] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
565] 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).
566] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
567] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
568] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
569] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
570] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
571] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
572] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
573] Commonsense is not so common.
574] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
575] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
576] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
577] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
578] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
579] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
580] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
581] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
582] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
583] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
584] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
585] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
586] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
587] 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
588] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
589] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
590] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
591] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
592] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
593] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
594] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
595] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
596] 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.
597] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
598] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
599] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
600] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)