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1] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
2] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
3] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
4] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
5] 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.
6] 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.
7] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
8] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
9] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
10] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
11] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
12] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
13] 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
14] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
15] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
16] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
17] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
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] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
20] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
21] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
22] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
23] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
24] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
25] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
26] 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
27] 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
28] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
29] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
30] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
31] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
32] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
33] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
34] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
35] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
36] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
37] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
38] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
39] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
40] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
41] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
42] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
43] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
44] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
45] 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.
46] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
47] 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.
48] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
49] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
50] 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.
51] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
52] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
53] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
54] 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.
55] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
56] 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.
57] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
58] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
59] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
60] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
61] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
62] 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
63] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
64] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
65] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
66] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
67] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
68] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
69] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
70] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
71] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
72] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
73] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
74] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
75] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
76] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
77] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
78] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
79] 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
80] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
81] 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.
82] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
83] 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
84] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
85] 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.
86] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
87] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
88] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
89] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
90] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
91] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
92] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
93] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
94] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
95] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
96] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
97] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
98] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
99] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
100] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
101] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
102] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
103] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
104] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
105] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
106] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
107] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
108] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
109] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
110] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
111] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
112] 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.
113] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
114] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
115] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
116] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
117] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
118] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
119] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
120] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
121] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
122] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
123] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
124] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
125] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
126] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
127] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
128] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
129] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
130] 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.
131] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
132] 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)
133] 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
134] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
135] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
136] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
137] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
138] 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
139] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
140] 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.
141] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
142] 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
143] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
144] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
145] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
146] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
147] 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
148] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
149] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
150] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
151] 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
152] 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.
153] 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)
154] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
155] 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).
156] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
157] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
158] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
159] 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
160] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
161] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
162] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
163] 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.
164] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
165] 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).
166] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
167] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
168] 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.
169] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
170] 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.
171] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
172] 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)
173] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
174] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
175] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
176] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
177] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
178] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
179] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
180] 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)
181] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
182] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
183] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
184] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
185] 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.
186] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
187] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
188] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
189] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
190] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
191] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
192] Commonsense is not so common.
193] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
194] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
195] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
196] 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.
197] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
198] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
199] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
200] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
201] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
202] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
203] 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
204] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
205] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
206] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
207] 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
208] 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.
209] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
210] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
211] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
212] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
213] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
214] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
215] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
216] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
217] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
218] 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
219] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
220] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
221] 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.
222] 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)
223] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
224] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
225] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
226] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
227] 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
228] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
229] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
230] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
231] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
232] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
233] 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)
234] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
235] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
236] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
237] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
238] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
239] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
240] 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.
241] 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]
242] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
243] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
244] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
245] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
246] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
247] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
249] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
250] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
251] 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
252] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
253] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
254] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
255] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
256] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
257] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
258] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
259] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
260] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
261] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
262] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
263] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
264] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
265] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
266] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
267] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
268] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
269] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
270] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
271] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
272] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
273] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
274] 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.
275] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
276] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
277] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
278] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
279] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
280] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
281] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
282] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
283] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
284] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
285] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
286] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
287] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
288] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
289] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
290] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
291] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
292] 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
293] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
294] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
295] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
296] 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
297] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
298] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
299] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
300] 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.
301] 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
302] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
303] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
304] 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
305] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
306] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
307] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
308] 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.
309] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
310] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
311] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
312] 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)
313] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
314] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
315] 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
316] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
317] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
318] 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
319] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
320] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
321] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
322] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
323] 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.
324] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
325] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
326] 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.
327] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
328] 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
329] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
330] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
331] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
332] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
333] 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
334] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
335] 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.
336] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
337] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
338] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
339] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
340] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
341] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
342] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
343] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
344] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
345] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
346] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
347] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
348] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
349] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
350] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
351] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
352] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
353] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
354] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
355] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
356] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
357] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
358] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
359] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
360] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
361] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
362] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
363] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
364] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
365] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
366] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
367] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
368] 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
369] 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)
370] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
371] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
372] 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.
373] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
374] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
375] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
376] 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.
377] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
378] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
379] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
380] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
381] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
382] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
383] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
384] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
385] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
386] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
387] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
388] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
389] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
390] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
391] 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.
392] 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)
393] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
394] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
395] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
396] 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.
397] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
398] 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
399] 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.
400] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
401] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
402] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
403] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
404] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
405] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
406] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
407] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
408] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
409] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
410] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
411] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
412] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
413] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
414] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
415] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
416] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
417] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
418] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
419] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
420] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
421] 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.
422] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
423] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
424] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
425] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
426] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
427] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
428] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
429] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
430] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
431] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
432] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
433] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
434] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
435] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
436] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
437] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
438] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
439] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
440] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
441] 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.
442] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
443] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
444] 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
445] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
446] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
447] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
448] 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.
449] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
450] 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.
451] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
452] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
453] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
454] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
455] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
456] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
457] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
458] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
459] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
460] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
461] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
462] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
463] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
464] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
465] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
466] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
467] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
468] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
469] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
470] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
471] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
472] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
473] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
474] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
475] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
476] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
477] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
478] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
479] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
480] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
481] 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)
482] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
483] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
484] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
485] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
486] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
487] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
488] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
489] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
490] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
491] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
492] 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
493] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
494] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
495] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
496] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
497] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
498] 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.
499] 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.
500] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
501] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
502] 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
503] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
504] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
505] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
506] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
507] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
508] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
509] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
510] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
511] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
512] 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
513] 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
514] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
515] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
516] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
517] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
518] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
519] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
520] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
521] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
522] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
523] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
524] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
525] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
526] 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.
527] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
528] 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)
529] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
530] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
531] 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.
532] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
533] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
534] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
535] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
536] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
537] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
538] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
539] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
540] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
541] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
542] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
543] 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.”
544] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
545] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
546] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
547] 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.
548] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
549] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
550] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
551] 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)
552] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
553] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
554] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
555] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
556] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
557] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
558] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
559] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
560] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
561] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
562] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
563] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
564] 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
565] 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
566] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
567] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
568] 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.
569] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
570] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
571] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
572] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
573] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
574] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
575] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
576] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
577] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
578] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
579] 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
580] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
581] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
582] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
583] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
584] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
585] 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
586] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
587] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
588] 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.
589] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
590] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
591] 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.
592] 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
593] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
594] 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.
595] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
596] 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)
597] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
598] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
599] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
600] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.