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1] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
2] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
3] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
4] 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
5] 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
6] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
7] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
8] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
9] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
10] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
11] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
12] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
13] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
14] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
15] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
16] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
17] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
18] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
19] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
20] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
21] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
22] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
23] 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)
24] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25] 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)
26] 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.
27] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
28] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
29] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
30] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
31] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
32] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
33] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
34] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
35] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
36] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
37] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
38] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
39] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
40] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
41] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
42] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
43] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
44] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
45] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
46] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
47] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
48] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
49] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
50] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
51] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
52] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
53] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
54] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
55] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
56] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
57] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
58] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
59] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
60] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
61] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
62] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
63] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
64] 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.
65] 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
66] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
67] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
68] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
69] 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)
70] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
71] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
72] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
73] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
74] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
75] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
76] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
77] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
78] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
79] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
80] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
81] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
82] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
83] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
84] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
85] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
86] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
87] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
88] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
89] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
90] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
91] 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
92] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
93] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
94] 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
95] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
96] 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.
97] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
98] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
99] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
100] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
101] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
102] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
103] 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.
104] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
105] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
106] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
107] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
108] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
109] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
110] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
111] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
112] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
113] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
114] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
115] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
116] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
117] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
118] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
119] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
120] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
121] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
122] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
123] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
124] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
125] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
126] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
127] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
128] 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.
129] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
130] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
131] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
132] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
134] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
135] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
136] 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)
137] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
138] 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
139] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
140] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
141] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
142] 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.
143] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
144] 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.
145] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
146] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
147] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
148] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
149] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
150] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
151] 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)
152] 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)
153] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
154] 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.
155] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
156] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
157] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
158] 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
159] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
160] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
161] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
162] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
163] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
164] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
165] 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.
166] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
167] 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)
168] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
169] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
170] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
171] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
172] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
173] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
174] 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
175] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
176] 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)
177] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
178] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
179] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
180] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
181] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
182] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
183] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
184] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
185] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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186] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
187] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
188] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
189] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
190] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
191] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
192] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
193] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
194] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
195] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
196] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
197] 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
198] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
199] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
200] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
201] 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
202] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
203] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
204] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
205] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
206] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
207] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
208] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
209] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
210] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
211] 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
212] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
213] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
214] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
215] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
216] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
217] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
218] 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
219] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
220] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
221] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
222] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
223] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
224] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
225] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
226] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
227] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
228] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
229] 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
230] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
231] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
232] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
233] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
234] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
235] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
236] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
237] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
238] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
239] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
240] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
241] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
242] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
243] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
244] 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)
245] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
246] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
247] 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.
248] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
249] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
250] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
251] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
252] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
253] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
254] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
255] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
256] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
257] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
258] 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
259] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
260] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
261] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
262] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
263] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
264] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
265] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
266] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
267] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
268] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
269] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
270] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
271] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
272] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
273] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
274] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
275] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
276] 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
277] 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.
278] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
279] 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
280] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
281] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
282] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
283] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
284] 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
285] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
286] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
287] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
288] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
289] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
290] 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.
291] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
292] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
293] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
294] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
295] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
296] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
297] 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.
298] 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)
299] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
300] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
301] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
302] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
303] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
304] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
305] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
306] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
307] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
308] 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.
309] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
310] 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)
311] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
312] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
313] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
314] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
315] 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
316] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
317] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
318] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
319] 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
320] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
321] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
322] 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.
323] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
324] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
325] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
326] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
327] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
328] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
329] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
330] 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.
331] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
332] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
333] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
334] 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
335] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
336] 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
337] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
338] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
339] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
340] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
341] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
342] 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
343] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
345] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
346] 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.
347] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
348] 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)
349] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
350] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
351] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
352] 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
353] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
354] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
355] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
356] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
357] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
358] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
359] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
360] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
361] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
362] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
363] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
364] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
365] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
366] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
367] 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.
368] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
369] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
370] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
371] 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)
372] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
373] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
374] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
375] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
376] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
377] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
378] 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
379] 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
380] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
381] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
382] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
383] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
384] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
385] 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)
386] 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.
387] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
388] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
389] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
390] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
391] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
392] 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.
393] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
394] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
395] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
397] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
398] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
399] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
400] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
401] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
402] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
403] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
404] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
405] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
406] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
407] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
408] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
409] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
410] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
411] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
412] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
413] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
414] 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
415] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
416] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
417] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
418] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
419] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
420] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
421] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
422] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
423] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
424] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
425] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
426] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
427] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
428] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
429] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
430] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
431] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
432] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
433] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
434] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
435] 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.
436] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
437] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
438] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
439] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
440] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
441] 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
442] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
443] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
444] 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
445] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
446] 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
447] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
448] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
449] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
450] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
451] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
452] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
453] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
454] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
455] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
456] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
457] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
458] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
459] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
460] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
461] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
462] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
463] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
464] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
465] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
466] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
467] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
468] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
469] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
470] 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.
471] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
472] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
473] 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
474] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
475] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
476] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
477] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
478] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
479] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
480] 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
481] 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.
482] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
483] 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)
484] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
485] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
486] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
487] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
488] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
489] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
490] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
491] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
492] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
493] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
494] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
495] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
496] 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.
497] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
498] 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.
499] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
500] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
501] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
502] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
503] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
504] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
505] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
506] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
507] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
508] 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
509] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
510] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
511] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
512] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
513] 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
514] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
515] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
516] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
517] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
518] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
519] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
520] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
521] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
522] 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
523] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
524] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
525] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
526] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
527] 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.
528] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
529] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
530] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
531] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
532] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
533] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
534] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
535] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
536] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
537] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
538] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
539] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
540] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
541] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
542] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
543] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
544] 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).
545] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
546] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
547] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
548] 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
549] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
550] 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.
551] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
552] 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.
553] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
554] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
555] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
556] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
557] 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.
558] 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.
559] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
560] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
561] 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)
562] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
563] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
564] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
565] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
566] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
568] 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.
569] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
570] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
571] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
572] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
573] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
574] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
575] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
576] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
577] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
578] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
579] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
580] 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.
581] 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.
582] 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
583] 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.
584] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
585] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
586] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
587] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
588] 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.
589] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
590] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
591] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
592] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
593] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
594] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
595] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
596] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
597] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
598] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
599] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
600] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil