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1] 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.
2] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
3] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
4] 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
5] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
6] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
7] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
8] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
9] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
10] 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
11] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
12] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
13] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
14] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
15] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
16] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
17] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
18] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
19] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
20] 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)
21] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
22] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
23] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
24] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
25] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
26] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
27] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
28] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
29] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
30] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
31] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
32] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
33] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
34] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
35] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
36] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
37] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
38] 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.
39] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
40] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
41] 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.
42] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
43] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
44] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
45] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
47] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
48] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
49] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
50] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
51] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
52] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
53] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
54] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
55] 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.
56] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
57] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
58] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
59] 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.
60] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
61] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
62] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
63] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
64] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
65] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
66] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
67] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
68] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
69] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
70] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
71] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
72] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
73] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
74] 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)
75] 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.
76] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
77] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
78] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
79] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
80] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
81] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
82] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
83] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
84] 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.
85] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
86] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
87] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
88] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
89] 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.
90] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
91] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
92] 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.
93] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
94] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
95] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
96] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
97] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
98] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
99] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
100] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
101] 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
102] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
103] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
104] 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.
105] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
106] 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)
107] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
108] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
109] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
110] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
111] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
112] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
113] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
114] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
115] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
116] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
117] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
118] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
119] 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
120] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
121] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
122] 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.
123] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
124] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
125] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
126] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
127] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
128] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
129] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
130] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
131] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
132] 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
133] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
134] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
135] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
136] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
137] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
138] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
139] 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
140] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
141] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
142] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
143] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
144] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
145] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
146] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
147] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
148] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
149] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
150] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
151] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
152] 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.
153] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
154] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
155] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
156] 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
157] 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.
158] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
159] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
160] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
161] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
162] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
163] 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
164] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
165] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
166] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
167] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
168] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
169] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
170] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
171] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
172] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
173] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
174] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
175] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
176] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
177] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
178] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
179] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
180] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
181] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
182] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
183] 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
184] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
185] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
186] 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
187] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
188] 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)
189] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
190] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
191] 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
192] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
193] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
194] 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
195] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
196] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
197] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
198] 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.
199] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
200] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
201] 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.
202] 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.
203] 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.
204] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
205] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
206] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
207] 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)
208] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
209] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
210] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
211] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
212] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
213] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
214] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
215] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
216] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
217] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
218] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
219] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
220] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
221] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
222] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
223] 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.
224] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
225] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
226] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
227] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
228] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
229] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
230] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
231] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
232] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
233] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
234] 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)
235] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
236] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
237] 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)
238] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
239] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
240] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
241] 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)
242] 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.
243] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
244] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
245] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
246] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
247] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
248] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
249] 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
250] 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
251] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
252] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
253] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
254] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
255] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
256] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
257] 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
258] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
259] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
260] 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
261] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
262] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
263] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
264] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
265] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
266] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
267] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
268] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
269] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
270] 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
271] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
272] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
273] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
274] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
275] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
276] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
277] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
278] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
279] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
280] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
281] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
282] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
283] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
284] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
285] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
286] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
287] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
288] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
289] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
290] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
291] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
292] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
293] 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)
294] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
295] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
296] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
297] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
298] 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)
299] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
300] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
301] 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.
302] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
303] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
304] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
305] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
306] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
307] 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
308] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
309] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
310] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
311] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
312] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
313] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
314] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
315] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
316] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
317] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
318] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
319] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
320] 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
321] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
322] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
323] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
324] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
325] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
326] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
327] 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
328] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
329] 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)
330] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
331] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
332] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
333] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
334] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
335] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
336] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
337] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
338] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
339] 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]
340] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
341] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
342] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
343] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
344] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
345] 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
346] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
347] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
348] 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]
349] 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
350] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
351] 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
352] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
353] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
354] 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)
355] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
356] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
357] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
358] 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
359] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
360] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
361] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
362] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
363] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
364] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
365] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
366] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
367] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
368] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
369] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
370] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
371] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
372] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
373] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
374] 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
375] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
376] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
377] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
378] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
379] 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
380] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
381] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
382] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
383] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
384] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
385] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
386] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
387] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
388] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
389] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
390] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
391] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
392] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
393] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
394] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
395] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
396] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
397] 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)
398] 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
399] 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
400] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
401] 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).
402] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
403] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
404] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
405] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
406] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
407] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
408] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
409] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
410] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
411] 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
412] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
413] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
414] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
415] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
416] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
417] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
418] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
419] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
420] 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.
421] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
422] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
423] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
424] 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
425] 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
426] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
427] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
428] 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)
429] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
430] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
431] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
432] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
433] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
434] 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.
435] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
436] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
437] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
438] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
439] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
440] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
441] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
442] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
443] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
444] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
445] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
446] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
447] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
448] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
449] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
450] 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)
451] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
452] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
453] 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.
454] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
455] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
456] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
457] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
458] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
459] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
460] 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.
461] 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.
462] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
463] 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
464] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
465] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
466] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
467] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
468] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
469] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
470] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
471] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
472] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
473] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
474] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
475] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
476] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
477] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
478] 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).
479] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
480] 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
481] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
482] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
483] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
484] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
485] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
486] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
487] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
488] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
490] 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.
491] 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
492] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
493] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
494] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
495] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
496] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
497] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
498] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
499] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
500] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
501] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
502] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
503] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
504] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
505] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
506] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
507] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
508] 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.
509] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
510] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
511] 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.
512] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
513] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
514] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
515] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
516] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
517] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
518] 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.”
519] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
520] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
521] 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.
522] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
523] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
524] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
525] 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.
526] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
527] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
528] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
529] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
530] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
531] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
532] 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.
533] 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.
534] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
535] 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
536] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
537] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
538] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
539] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
540] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
541] 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.
542] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
543] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
544] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
545] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
546] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
547] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
548] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
549] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
550] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
551] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
552] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
553] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
554] 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
555] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
556] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
557] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
558] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
559] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
560] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
561] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
562] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
563] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
564] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
565] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
566] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
567] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
568] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
569] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
570] 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
571] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
572] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
573] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
574] Commonsense is not so common.
575] 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
576] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
577] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
578] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
579] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
580] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
581] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
582] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
583] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
584] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
585] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
586] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
587] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
588] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
589] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
590] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
591] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
592] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
593] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
594] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
595] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
596] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
597] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
598] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
599] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
600] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.