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1] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
2] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
3] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
4] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
5] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
6] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
7] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
8] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
9] 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)
10] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
11] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
12] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
13] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
14] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15] 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.
16] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
17] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
18] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
19] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
20] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
21] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
22] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
23] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
24] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
25] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
26] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
27] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
28] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
29] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
30] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
31] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
32] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
33] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
34] 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.
35] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
36] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
37] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
38] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
39] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
40] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
41] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
42] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
43] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
44] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
45] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
46] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
47] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
48] 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
49] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
50] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
51] 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)
52] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
53] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
54] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
55] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
56] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
57] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
58] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
59] 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
60] 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.”
61] 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.
62] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
63] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
64] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
65] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
66] 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
67] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
68] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
69] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
70] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
71] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
72] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
73] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
74] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
75] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
76] 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.
77] 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.
78] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
79] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
80] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
81] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
82] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
83] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
84] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
85] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
86] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
87] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
88] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
89] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
90] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
91] 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.
92] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
93] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
94] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
95] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
96] 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
97] Commonsense is not so common.
98] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
99] 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.
100] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
101] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
102] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
103] 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).
104] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
105] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
106] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
107] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
108] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
109] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
110] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
111] 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.
112] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
113] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
114] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
115] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
116] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
117] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
118] 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
119] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
120] 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.
121] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
122] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
123] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
124] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
125] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
126] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
127] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
128] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
129] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
130] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
131] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
132] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
133] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
134] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
135] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
136] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
137] 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.
138] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
139] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
140] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
141] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
142] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
143] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
144] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
145] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
146] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
147] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
148] 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.
149] 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.
150] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
151] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
152] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
153] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
154] 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.
155] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
156] 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.
157] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
158] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
159] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
160] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
161] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
162] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
163] 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.
164] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
165] 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.
166] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
167] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
168] 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)
169] 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
170] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
171] 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.
172] 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
173] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
174] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
175] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
176] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
177] 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
178] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
179] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
180] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
181] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
182] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
183] 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
184] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
185] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
186] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
187] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
188] 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.
189] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
190] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
191] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
192] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
193] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
194] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
195] 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
196] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
197] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
198] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
199] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
200] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
201] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
202] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
203] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
204] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
205] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
206] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
207] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
208] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
209] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
210] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
211] 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
212] 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.
213] 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.
214] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
215] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
216] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
217] 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
218] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
219] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
220] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
221] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
222] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
223] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
224] 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.
225] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
226] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
227] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
228] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
229] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
230] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
231] 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.
232] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
233] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
234] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
235] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
236] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
237] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
238] 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.
239] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
240] 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.
241] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
242] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
243] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
244] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
245] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
246] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
247] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
248] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
249] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
250] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
251] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
252] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
253] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
254] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
255] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
256] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
257] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
258] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
259] 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.
260] 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
261] 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
262] 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
263] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
264] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
265] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
266] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
267] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
268] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
269] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
270] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
271] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
272] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
273] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
274] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
275] 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
276] 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
277] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
278] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
279] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
280] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
281] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
282] 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
283] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
284] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
285] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
286] 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
287] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
288] 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
289] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
290] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
291] 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.
292] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
293] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
294] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
295] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
296] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
297] 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)
298] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
299] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
300] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
301] 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.
302] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
303] 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
304] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
305] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
306] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
307] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
308] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
309] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
310] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
311] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
312] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
313] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
314] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
315] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
316] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
317] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
318] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
319] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
320] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
321] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
322] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
323] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
324] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
325] 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
326] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
327] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
328] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
329] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
330] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
331] 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.
332] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
333] 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.
334] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
335] 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.
336] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
337] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
338] 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
339] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
340] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
341] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
342] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
343] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
344] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
345] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
346] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
347] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
348] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
349] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
350] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
351] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
352] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
353] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
354] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
355] 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)
356] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
357] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
358] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
359] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
360] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
361] 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.
362] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
363] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
364] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
365] 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.
366] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
367] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
368] 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.
369] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
370] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
371] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
372] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
373] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
374] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
375] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
376] 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)
377] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
378] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
379] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
380] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
381] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
382] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
383] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
384] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
385] 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.
386] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
387] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
388] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
389] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
390] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
391] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
392] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
393] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
394] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
395] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
396] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
397] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
398] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
399] Commonsense is not so common.
400] 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)
401] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
402] 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 .
403] 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.
404] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
405] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
406] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
407] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
408] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
409] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
410] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
411] 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.
412] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
413] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
414] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
415] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
416] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
417] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
418] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
419] 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.
420] 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
421] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
422] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
423] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
424] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
425] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
426] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
427] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
428] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
429] 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)
430] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
431] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
432] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
433] 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
434] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
435] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
436] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
437] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
438] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
439] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
440] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
441] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
442] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
443] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
444] 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
445] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
446] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
447] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
448] 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
449] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
450] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
451] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
452] 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)
453] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
454] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
455] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
456] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
457] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
458] 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
459] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
460] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
461] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
462] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
463] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
464] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
465] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
466] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
467] 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)
468] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
469] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
470] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
471] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
472] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
473] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
474] 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.
475] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
476] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
477] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
478] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
479] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
480] 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.
481] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
482] 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
483] 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).
484] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
485] 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
486] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
487] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
488] 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
489] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
490] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
491] 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
492] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
493] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
494] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
495] 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.
496] 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)
497] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
498] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
499] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
500] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
501] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
502] 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.
503] 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.
504] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
505] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
506] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
507] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
508] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
509] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
510] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
511] 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
512] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
513] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
514] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
515] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
516] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
517] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
518] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
519] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
520] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
521] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
522] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
523] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
524] 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.
525] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
526] 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)
527] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
528] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
529] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
530] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
531] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
532] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
533] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
534] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
535] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
536] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
537] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
538] 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.
539] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
540] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
541] 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)
542] 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)
543] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
544] 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
545] 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.
546] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
547] 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.
548] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
549] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
550] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
551] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
552] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
553] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
554] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
555] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
556] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
557] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
558] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
559] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
560] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
561] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
562] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
563] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
564] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
565] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
566] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
567] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
568] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
569] 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
570] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
571] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
572] 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.
573] 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.
574] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
575] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
576] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
577] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
578] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
579] 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
580] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
581] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
582] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
583] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
584] 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)
585] 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.
586] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
587] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
588] 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
589] 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.
590] 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.
591] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
592] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
593] 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.
594] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
595] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
596] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
597] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
598] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
599] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
600] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.