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1] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
2] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
3] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
4] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
5] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
6] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
7] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
8] 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.
9] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
10] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
11] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
12] 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.
13] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
14] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
15] 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)
16] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
17] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
18] 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)
19] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
20] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
21] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
22] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
23] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
24] 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
25] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
26] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
27] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
28] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
29] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
30] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
31] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
32] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
33] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
34] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
35] 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
36] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
37] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
38] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
39] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
40] 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)
41] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
42] 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.
43] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
44] 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
45] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
46] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
47] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
48] 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.
49] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
50] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
51] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
52] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
53] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
54] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
55] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
56] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
57] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
58] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
59] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
60] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
61] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
62] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
63] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
64] 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
65] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
66] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
67] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
68] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
69] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
70] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
71] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
72] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
73] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
74] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
75] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
76] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
77] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
78] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
79] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
80] 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.
81] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
82] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
83] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
84] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
85] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
86] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
87] 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.
88] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
89] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
90] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
91] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
92] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
93] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
94] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
95] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
96] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
97] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
98] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
99] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
100] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
101] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
102] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
103] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
104] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
105] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
106] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
107] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
108] 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)
109] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
110] 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.
111] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
112] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
113] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
114] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
115] 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.
116] 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.
117] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
118] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
119] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
120] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
121] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
122] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
123] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
124] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
125] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
126] 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.
127] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
128] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
129] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
130] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
131] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
132] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
133] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
134] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
135] 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.
136] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
137] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
138] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
139] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
140] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
141] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
142] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
143] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
144] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
145] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
146] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
147] 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
148] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
149] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
150] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
151] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
152] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
153] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
154] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
155] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
156] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
157] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
158] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
159] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
160] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
161] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
162] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
163] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
164] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
165] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
166] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
167] 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
168] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
169] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
170] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
171] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
172] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
173] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
174] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
175] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
176] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
177] 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.
178] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
179] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
180] 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)
181] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
182] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
183] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
184] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
185] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
186] 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.
187] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
188] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
189] 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
190] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
191] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
192] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
193] 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.
194] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
195] 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.
196] 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
197] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
198] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
199] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
200] 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
201] 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.
202] 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
203] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
204] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
205] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
206] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
207] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
208] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
209] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
210] 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.
211] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
212] 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)
213] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
214] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
215] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
216] 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
217] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
218] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
219] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
220] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
221] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
223] 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.
224] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
225] 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)
226] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
227] 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.
228] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
229] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
230] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
231] 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.
232] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
233] 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
234] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
235] 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 .
236] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
237] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
238] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
239] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
240] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
241] 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.
242] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
243] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
244] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
245] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
246] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
247] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
248] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
249] 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)
250] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
251] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
252] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
253] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
254] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
255] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
256] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
257] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
258] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
259] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
260] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
261] 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
262] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
263] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
264] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
265] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
266] 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.
267] 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.
268] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
269] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
270] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
271] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
272] 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.
273] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
274] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
275] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
276] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
277] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
278] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
279] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
280] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
281] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
282] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
283] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
284] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
285] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
286] 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.
287] 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
288] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
289] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
290] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
291] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
292] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
293] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
294] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
295] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
296] 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.
297] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
298] 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).
299] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
300] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
301] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
302] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
303] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
304] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
305] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
306] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
307] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
308] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
309] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
310] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
311] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
312] 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.
313] 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.
314] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
315] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
316] 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.
317] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
318] 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.
319] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
320] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
321] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
322] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
323] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
324] 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
325] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
326] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
327] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
328] 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
329] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
330] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
331] 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.
332] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
333] 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)
334] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
335] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
336] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
337] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
338] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
339] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
340] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
341] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
342] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
343] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
344] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
345] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
346] 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
347] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
348] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
349] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
350] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
351] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
352] 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.
353] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
354] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
355] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
356] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
357] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
358] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
359] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
360] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
361] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
362] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
363] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
364] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
365] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
366] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
367] Commonsense is not so common.
368] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
369] 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.
370] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
371] 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)
372] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
373] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
374] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
375] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
376] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
377] 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
378] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
379] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
380] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
381] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
382] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
383] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
384] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
385] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
386] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
387] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
388] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
389] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
390] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
391] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
392] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
393] 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.
394] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
395] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
396] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
397] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
398] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
399] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
400] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
401] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
402] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
403] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
404] 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
405] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
406] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
407] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
408] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
409] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
410] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
411] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
412] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
413] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
414] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
415] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
416] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
417] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
418] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
419] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
420] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
421] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
422] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
423] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
424] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
425] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
426] 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
427] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
428] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
429] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
430] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
431] 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
432] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
433] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
434] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
435] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
436] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
437] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
438] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
439] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
440] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
441] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
442] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
443] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
444] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
445] 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
446] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
447] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
448] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
449] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
450] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
451] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
452] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
453] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
454] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
455] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
456] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
457] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
458] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
459] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
460] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
461] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
462] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
463] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
464] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
465] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
466] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
467] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
468] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
469] 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.
470] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
471] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
472] 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.
473] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
474] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
475] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
476] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
477] 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.
478] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
479] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
480] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
481] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
482] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
483] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
484] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
485] 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.
486] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
487] 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
488] 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.
489] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
490] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
491] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
492] 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
493] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
495] 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
496] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
497] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
498] 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
499] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
500] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
501] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
502] 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.
503] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
504] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
505] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
506] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
507] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
508] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
509] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
510] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
511] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
512] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
513] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
514] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
515] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
516] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
517] 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
518] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
519] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
520] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
521] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
522] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
523] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
524] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
525] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
526] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
527] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
528] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
529] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
530] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
531] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
532] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
533] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
534] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
535] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
536] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
537] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
538] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
539] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
540] 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
541] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
542] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
543] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
544] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
545] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
546] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
547] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
548] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
549] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
550] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
551] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
552] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
553] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
554] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
555] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
556] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
557] 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.
558] 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
559] 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.
560] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
561] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
562] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
563] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
564] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
565] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
566] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
567] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
568] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
569] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
570] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
571] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
572] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
573] 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.
574] 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.
575] 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.
576] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
577] 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
578] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
579] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
580] 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
581] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
582] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
583] 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.
584] 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.
585] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
586] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
587] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
588] 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)
589] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
590] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
591] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
592] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
593] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
594] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
595] 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.
596] 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)
597] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
598] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
599] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
600] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.