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1] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
2] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
3] 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)
4] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
5] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
6] 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.
7] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
8] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
9] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
10] 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.
11] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
12] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
13] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
14] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
15] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
16] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
17] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
18] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
19] 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
20] 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
21] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
22] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
23] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
24] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
25] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
26] 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
27] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
28] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
29] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
30] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
31] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
32] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
33] 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
34] 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
35] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
36] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
37] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
38] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
39] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
40] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41] 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
42] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
43] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
44] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
45] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
46] 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
47] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
48] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
49] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
50] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
51] 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.
52] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
53] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
54] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
55] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
56] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
57] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
58] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
59] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
60] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
61] 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.
62] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
63] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
64] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
65] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
66] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
67] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
68] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
69] 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.
70] 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)
71] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
72] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
73] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
74] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
75] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
76] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
77] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
78] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
79] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
80] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
81] 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
82] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
83] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
84] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
85] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
86] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
87] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
88] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
89] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
90] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
91] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
92] 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
93] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
94] 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).
95] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
96] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
97] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
98] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
99] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
100] 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)
101] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
102] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
103] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
104] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
105] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
106] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
107] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
108] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
109] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
110] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
111] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
112] 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.
113] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
114] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
115] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
116] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
117] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
118] 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.
119] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
120] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
121] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
122] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
123] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
124] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
125] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
126] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
127] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
128] 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.
129] 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)
130] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
131] 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)
132] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
133] 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.
134] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
135] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
136] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
137] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
138] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
140] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
141] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
142] 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.
143] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
144] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
145] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
146] 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.
147] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
148] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
149] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
150] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
151] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
153] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
154] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
155] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
156] 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.
157] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
158] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
159] 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)
160] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
161] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
162] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
163] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
164] 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.
165] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
166] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
167] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
168] 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.
169] 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)
170] 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
171] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
172] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
173] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
174] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
175] 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)
176] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
177] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
178] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
179] 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.
180] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
181] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
182] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
183] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
184] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
185] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
186] 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.
187] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
188] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
189] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
190] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
191] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
192] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
193] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
194] 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)
195] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
196] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
197] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
198] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
199] 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)
200] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
201] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
202] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
203] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
204] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
205] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
206] 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.
207] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
208] 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.
209] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
210] 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
211] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
212] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
213] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
214] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
215] 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]
216] 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.
217] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
218] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
219] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
220] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
221] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
222] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
223] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
224] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
225] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
226] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
227] 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.
228] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
229] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
230] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
231] 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
232] 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
233] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
234] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
235] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
236] 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.
237] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
238] 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
239] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
240] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
241] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
242] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
243] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
244] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
245] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
246] 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.
247] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
248] 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.
249] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
250] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
251] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
252] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
253] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
254] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
255] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
256] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
257] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
258] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
259] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
260] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
261] 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)
262] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
263] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
264] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
265] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
266] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
267] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
268] 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
269] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
270] 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.
271] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
272] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
273] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
274] 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.
275] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
276] 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.
277] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
278] 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.
279] 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.
280] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
281] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
282] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
283] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
284] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
285] 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
286] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
287] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
288] 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)
289] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
290] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
291] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
292] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
293] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
294] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
295] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
296] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
297] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
298] 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
299] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
300] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
301] 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.
302] 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
303] 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.
304] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
305] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
306] 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
307] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
308] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
309] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
310] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
311] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
312] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
313] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
314] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
315] 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)
316] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
317] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
318] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
319] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
320] 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)
321] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
322] 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.
323] 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.
324] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
325] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
326] 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
327] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
328] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
329] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
330] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
331] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
332] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
333] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
334] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
335] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
336] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
337] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
338] 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.
339] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
340] 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.
341] 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
342] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
343] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
344] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
345] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
346] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
347] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
348] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
349] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
350] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
351] 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)
352] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
353] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
354] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
355] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
356] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
357] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
358] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
359] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
360] 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 .
361] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
362] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
363] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
364] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
365] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
366] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
367] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
368] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
369] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
370] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
371] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
372] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
373] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
374] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
375] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
376] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
377] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
378] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
379] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
380] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
381] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
382] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
383] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
384] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
385] 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
386] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
387] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
388] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
389] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
390] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
391] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
392] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
393] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
394] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
395] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
396] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
397] 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
398] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
399] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
400] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
401] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
402] 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)
403] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
404] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
405] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
406] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
407] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
408] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
409] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
410] 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
411] 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
412] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
413] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
414] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
415] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
416] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
417] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
418] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
419] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
420] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
421] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
422] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
423] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
424] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
425] 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.
426] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
427] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
428] 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.
429] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
430] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
431] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
432] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
433] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
434] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
435] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
436] 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
437] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
438] 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
439] 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.
440] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
441] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
442] 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
443] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
444] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
445] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
446] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
447] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
448] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
449] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
450] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
451] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
452] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
453] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
454] 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
455] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
456] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
457] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
458] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
459] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
460] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
461] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
462] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
463] 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)
464] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
465] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
466] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
467] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
468] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
469] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
470] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
471] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
472] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
473] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
474] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
475] 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)
476] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
477] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
478] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
479] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
480] 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.
481] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
482] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
483] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
484] 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
485] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
486] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
487] 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.
488] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
489] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
490] 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
491] 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
492] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
493] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
494] 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).
495] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
496] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
497] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
498] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
499] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
500] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
501] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
502] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
503] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
504] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
505] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
506] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
507] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
508] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
509] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
510] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
511] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
512] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
513] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
514] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
515] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
516] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
517] 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.
518] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
519] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
520] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
521] 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
522] 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.
523] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
524] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
525] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
526] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
527] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
528] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
529] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
530] 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
531] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
532] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
533] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
534] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
535] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
536] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
537] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
538] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
539] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
540] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
541] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
542] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
543] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
544] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
545] 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.
546] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
547] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
548] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
549] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
550] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
551] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
552] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
553] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
554] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
555] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
556] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
557] 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.
558] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
559] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
560] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
561] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
562] 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.
563] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
564] 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
565] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
566] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
567] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
568] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
569] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
570] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
571] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
572] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
573] 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.
574] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
575] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
576] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
577] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
578] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
579] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
580] 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
581] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
582] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
583] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
584] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
585] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
586] 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.
587] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
588] 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
589] 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
590] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
591] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
592] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
593] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
594] 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
595] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
596] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
597] 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.
598] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
599] 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
600] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.