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1] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
2] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
3] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
4] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
5] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
6] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
7] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
8] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
9] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
10] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
11] 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.
12] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
13] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
14] 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
15] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
16] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
17] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
18] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
19] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
20] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
21] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
22] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
23] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
24] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
25] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
26] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
27] 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
28] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
29] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
30] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
31] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
32] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
33] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
34] 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)
35] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
36] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
37] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
38] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
39] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
40] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
41] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
42] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
43] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
44] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
45] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
46] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
47] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
48] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
49] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
50] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
51] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
52] 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
53] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
54] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
55] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
56] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
57] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
58] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
59] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
60] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
61] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
62] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
63] 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
64] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
65] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
66] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
67] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
68] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
69] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
70] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
71] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
72] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
73] 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
74] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
75] 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.
76] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
77] 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
78] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
79] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
80] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
81] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
82] 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.
83] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
84] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
85] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
86] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
87] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
88] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
89] 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.
90] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
91] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
92] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
93] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
94] 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)
95] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
96] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
97] 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.
98] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
99] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
100] 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.
101] 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)
102] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
103] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
104] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
105] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
106] 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)
107] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
108] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
109] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
110] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
111] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
112] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
113] 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.
114] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
115] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
116] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
117] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
118] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
119] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
120] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
121] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
122] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
123] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
124] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
125] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
126] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
127] 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)
128] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
129] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
130] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
131] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
132] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
133] 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.
134] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
135] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
136] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
137] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
138] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
139] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
140] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
141] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
142] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
143] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
144] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
145] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
146] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
147] 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
148] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
149] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
150] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
151] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
152] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
153] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
154] 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
155] 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.
156] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
157] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
158] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
159] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
160] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
161] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
162] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
163] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
164] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
165] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
166] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
167] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
168] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
169] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
170] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
171] 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.
172] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
173] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
174] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
175] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
176] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
177] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
178] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
179] 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.
180] 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.
181] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
182] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
183] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
184] 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.
185] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
186] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
187] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
188] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
189] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
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] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
192] 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.
193] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
194] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
195] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
196] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
197] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
198] 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.
199] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
200] 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
201] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
202] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
203] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
204] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
205] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
206] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
207] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
208] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
209] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
210] 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
211] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
212] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
213] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
214] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
215] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
216] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
217] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
218] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
219] 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
220] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
221] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
222] 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
223] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
224] 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.
225] 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
226] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
227] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
228] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
229] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
230] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
231] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
232] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
233] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
234] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
235] 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
236] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
237] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
238] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
239] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
240] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
241] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
242] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
243] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
244] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
245] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
246] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
247] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
248] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
249] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
250] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
251] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
252] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
253] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
254] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
255] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
256] 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
257] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
258] 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.
259] 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
260] 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)
261] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
262] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
263] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
264] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
265] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
266] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
267] 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)
268] 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
269] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
270] 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
271] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
272] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
273] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
274] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
275] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
276] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
277] Commonsense is not so common.
278] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
279] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
280] 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]
281] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
282] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
283] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
284] 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
285] 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
286] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
287] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
288] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
289] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
290] 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
291] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
292] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
293] 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
294] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
295] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
296] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
297] 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.
298] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
299] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
300] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
301] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
302] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
303] 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)
304] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
305] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
306] 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.
307] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
308] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
309] 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
310] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
311] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
312] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
313] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
314] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
315] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
316] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
317] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
318] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
319] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
320] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
321] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
322] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
323] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
324] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
325] 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.
326] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
327] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
328] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
329] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
330] 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
331] 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)
332] 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)
333] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
334] 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
335] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
336] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
337] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
338] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
339] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
340] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
341] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
342] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
343] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
344] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
345] 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.
346] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
347] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
348] 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.
349] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
350] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
351] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
352] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
353] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
354] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
355] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
356] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
357] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
358] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
359] 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).
360] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
361] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
362] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
363] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
364] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
365] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
366] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
367] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
368] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
369] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
370] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
371] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
372] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
373] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
374] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
375] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
376] 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.
377] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
378] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
379] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
380] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
381] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
382] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
383] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
384] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
385] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
386] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
387] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
388] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
389] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
390] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
391] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
392] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
393] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
394] 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.
395] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
396] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
397] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
398] 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
399] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
400] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
401] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
402] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
403] 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).
404] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
405] 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)
406] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
407] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
408] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
409] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
410] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
411] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
412] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
413] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
414] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
415] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
416] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
417] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
418] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
419] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
420] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
421] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
422] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
423] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
424] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
425] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
426] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
427] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
428] 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)
429] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
430] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
431] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
432] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
433] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
434] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
435] 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
436] 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
437] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
438] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
439] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
440] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
441] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
442] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
443] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
444] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
445] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
446] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
447] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
448] 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
449] 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
450] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
451] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
452] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
453] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
454] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
455] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
456] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
457] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
458] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
459] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
460] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
461] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
462] 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.
463] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
464] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
465] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
466] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
467] 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.
468] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
469] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
470] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
471] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
472] 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.
473] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
474] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
475] 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.
476] 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
477] 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
478] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
479] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
480] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
481] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
482] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
483] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
484] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
485] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
486] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
487] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
488] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
489] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
490] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
491] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
492] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
493] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
495] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
496] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
497] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
498] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
499] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
500] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
501] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
502] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
503] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
504] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
505] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
506] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
507] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
508] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
509] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
510] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
511] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
512] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
513] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
514] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
515] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
516] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
517] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
518] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
519] 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
520] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
521] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
522] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
523] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
524] 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
525] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
526] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
527] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
528] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
529] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
530] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
531] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
532] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
533] 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)
534] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
535] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
536] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
537] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
538] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
539] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
540] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
541] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
542] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
543] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
544] 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.
545] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
546] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
547] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
548] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
549] 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.
550] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
551] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
552] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
553] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
554] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
555] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
556] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
557] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
558] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
559] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
560] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
561] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
562] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
563] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
564] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
565] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
566] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
567] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
568] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
569] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
570] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
571] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
572] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
573] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
574] 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.
575] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
576] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
577] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
578] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
579] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
580] 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.
581] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
582] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
583] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
584] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
585] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
586] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
587] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
588] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
589] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
590] 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.
591] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
592] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
593] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
594] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
595] 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.
596] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
597] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
598] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
599] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
600] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.