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1] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
2] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
3] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
4] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
5] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
6] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
7] 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.
8] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
9] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
10] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
11] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
12] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
13] 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
14] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
15] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
16] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
17] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
18] 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.
19] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
20] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
21] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
22] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
23] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
24] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
25] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
26] 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.
27] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
28] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
29] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
30] 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.
31] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
32] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
33] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
34] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
35] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
36] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
37] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
38] 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
39] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
40] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
41] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
42] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
43] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
44] 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.
45] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
46] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
47] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
48] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
49] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
50] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
51] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
52] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
53] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
54] 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)
55] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
56] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
57] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
58] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
59] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
60] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
61] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
62] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
63] 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)
64] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
65] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
66] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
67] 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.
68] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
69] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
70] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
71] 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
72] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
73] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
74] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
75] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
76] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
77] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
78] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
79] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
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] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
82] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
83] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
84] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
85] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
86] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
87] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
88] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
89] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
90] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
91] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
92] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
93] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
94] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
95] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
96] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
97] 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.
98] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
99] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
100] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
101] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
102] 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.
103] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
104] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
105] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
106] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
107] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
108] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
109] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
110] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
111] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
112] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
113] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
114] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
115] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
116] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
117] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
118] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
119] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
120] 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)
121] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
122] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
123] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
124] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
125] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
126] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
127] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
128] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
129] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
130] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
131] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
132] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
133] 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.
134] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
135] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
136] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
137] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
138] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
139] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
140] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
141] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
142] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
143] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
144] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
145] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
146] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
147] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
148] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
149] 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.
150] 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)
151] 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.
152] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
153] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
154] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
155] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
156] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
157] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
158] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
159] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
160] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
161] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
162] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
163] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
164] 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
165] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
166] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
167] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
168] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
169] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
170] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
171] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
172] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
173] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
174] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
175] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
176] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
177] 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
178] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
179] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
180] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
181] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
182] 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
183] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
184] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
185] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
186] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
187] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
188] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
189] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
190] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
191] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
192] 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
193] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
194] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
195] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
196] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
197] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
198] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
199] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
200] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
201] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
202] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
203] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
204] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
205] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
206] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
207] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
208] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
209] 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)
210] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
211] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
212] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
213] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
214] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
215] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
216] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
217] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
218] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
219] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
220] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
221] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
222] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
223] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
224] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
225] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
226] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
227] 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.
228] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
229] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
230] 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
231] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
232] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
233] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] 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.
235] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
236] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
237] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
238] 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
239] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
240] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
241] 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
242] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
243] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
244] 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.
245] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
246] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
247] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
248] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
249] 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.
250] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
251] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
252] 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
253] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
254] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
255] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
256] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
257] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
258] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
259] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
260] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
261] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
262] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
263] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
264] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
265] 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.
266] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
267] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
268] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
269] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
270] 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.
271] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
272] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
273] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
274] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
275] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
276] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
277] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
278] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
279] 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)
280] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
281] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
282] 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
283] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
284] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
285] 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
286] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
287] 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
288] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
289] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
290] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
291] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
292] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
293] 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.
294] 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.
295] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
296] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
297] 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
298] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
299] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
300] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
301] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
302] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
303] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
304] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
305] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
306] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
307] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
308] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
309] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
310] 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.
311] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
312] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
313] 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
314] 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
315] 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
316] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
317] 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
318] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
319] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
320] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
321] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
322] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
323] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
324] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
325] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
326] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
327] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
328] 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.
329] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
330] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
331] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
332] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
333] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
334] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
335] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
336] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
337] 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
338] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
339] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
340] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
341] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
342] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
343] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
344] 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.
345] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
347] 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
348] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
349] 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
350] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
351] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
352] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
353] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
354] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
355] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
356] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
357] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
358] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
359] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
360] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
361] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
362] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
363] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
364] 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
365] 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.
366] 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.
367] 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).
368] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
369] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
370] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
371] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
372] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
373] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
374] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
375] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
376] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
377] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
378] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
379] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
380] 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
381] 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
382] 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
383] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
384] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
385] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
386] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
387] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
388] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
389] 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
390] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
391] 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.
392] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
393] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
394] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
395] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
396] 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.
397] 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
398] Commonsense is not so common.
399] 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
400] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
401] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
402] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
403] 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)
404] 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)
405] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
406] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
407] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
408] 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.
409] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
410] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
411] 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
412] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
413] 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.
414] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
415] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
416] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
417] 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
418] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
419] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
420] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
421] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
422] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
423] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
424] 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
425] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
426] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
427] 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
428] 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.
429] 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.
430] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
431] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
432] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
433] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
434] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
435] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
436] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
437] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
438] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
439] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
440] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
441] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
442] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
443] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
444] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
445] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
446] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
447] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
448] 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.
449] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
450] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
451] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
452] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
453] 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.
454] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
455] 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.
456] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
457] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
458] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
459] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
460] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
461] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
462] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
463] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
464] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
465] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
466] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
467] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
468] 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.
469] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
470] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
471] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
472] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
473] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
474] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
475] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
476] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
477] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
478] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
479] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
480] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
481] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
482] 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)
483] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
484] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
485] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
486] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
487] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
488] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
489] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
490] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
491] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
492] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
493] 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
494] 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
495] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
496] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
497] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
498] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
499] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
500] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
501] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
502] 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
503] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
504] 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)
505] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
506] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
507] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
508] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
509] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
510] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
511] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
512] 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
513] 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]
514] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
515] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
516] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
517] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
518] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
519] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
520] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
521] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
522] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
523] 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
524] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
525] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
526] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
527] 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)
528] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
529] 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
530] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
531] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
532] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
533] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
534] 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.
535] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
536] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
537] 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.
538] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
539] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
540] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
541] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
542] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
543] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
544] 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.
545] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
546] 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.
547] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
548] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
549] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
550] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
551] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
552] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
553] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
554] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
555] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
556] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
557] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
558] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
559] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
560] 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.
561] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
562] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
563] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
564] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
565] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
566] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
567] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
568] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
569] 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.
570] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
571] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
572] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
573] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
574] 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)
575] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
576] 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.
577] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
578] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
579] 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)
580] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
581] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
582] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
583] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
584] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
585] 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
586] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
587] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
588] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
589] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
590] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
591] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
592] 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.
593] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
594] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
595] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
596] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
597] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
598] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
599] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
600] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer