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1] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
2] 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.
3] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
4] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
5] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
6] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
7] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
8] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
9] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
10] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
11] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
12] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
13] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
14] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
15] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
16] 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).
17] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
18] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
19] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
20] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
21] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
22] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
23] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
24] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
25] 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
26] 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
27] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
28] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
29] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
30] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
31] 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
32] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
33] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
34] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
35] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
36] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
37] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
38] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
39] 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.
40] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
41] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
42] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
43] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
44] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
45] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
46] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
47] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
49] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
50] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
51] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
52] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
53] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
54] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
55] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
56] 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)
57] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
58] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
59] 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.
60] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
61] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
62] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
63] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
64] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
65] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
66] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
67] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
68] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
69] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
70] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
71] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
72] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
73] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
74] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
75] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
76] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
77] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
78] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
79] 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.
80] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
81] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
82] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
83] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
84] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
85] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
86] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
87] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
88] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
89] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
90] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
91] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
92] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
93] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
94] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
95] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
96] 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.
97] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
98] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
99] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
100] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
101] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
102] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
103] 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.
104] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
105] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
106] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
107] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
108] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
109] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
110] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
111] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
112] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
113] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
114] 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)
115] 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)
116] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
117] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
118] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
119] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
120] 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.
121] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
122] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
123] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
124] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
125] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
126] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
127] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
128] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
129] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
130] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
131] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
132] 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)
133] 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.
134] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
135] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
136] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
137] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
138] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
139] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
140] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
141] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
142] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
143] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
144] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
145] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
146] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
147] 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.
148] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
149] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
150] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
151] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
152] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
153] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
154] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
155] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
156] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
157] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
158] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
159] 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.
160] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
161] Commonsense is not so common.
162] 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)
163] 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
164] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
165] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
166] 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
167] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
168] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
169] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
170] 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.
171] 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.
172] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
173] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
174] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
175] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
176] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
177] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
178] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
179] 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.
180] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
181] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
182] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
183] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
184] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
185] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
186] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
187] 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.
188] 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
189] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
190] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
191] 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)
192] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
193] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
194] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
195] 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
196] 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.
197] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
198] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
199] 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.
200] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
201] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
202] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
203] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
204] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
205] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
206] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
207] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
208] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
209] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
210] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
211] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
212] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
213] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
214] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
215] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
216] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
217] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
218] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
219] 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)
220] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
221] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
222] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
223] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
224] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
225] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
226] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
227] 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.
228] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
229] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
230] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
231] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
232] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
233] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
234] 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.
235] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
236] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
237] 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.
238] 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.
239] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
240] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
241] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
242] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
243] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
244] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
245] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
246] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
247] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
248] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
249] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
250] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
251] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
252] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
253] 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.
254] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
255] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
256] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
257] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
258] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
259] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
260] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
261] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
262] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
263] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
264] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
265] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
266] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
267] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
268] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
269] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
270] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
271] 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
272] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
273] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
274] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
275] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
276] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
277] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
278] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
279] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
280] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
281] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
282] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
283] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
284] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
285] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
286] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
287] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
288] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
289] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
290] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
291] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
292] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
293] 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.
294] 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.
295] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
296] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
297] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
298] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
299] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
300] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
301] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
302] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
303] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
304] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
305] 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
306] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
307] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
308] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
309] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
310] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
311] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
312] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
313] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
314] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
315] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
316] 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.
317] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
318] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
319] 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
320] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
321] Commonsense is not so common.
322] 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)
323] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
324] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
325] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
326] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
327] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
328] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
329] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
330] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
331] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
332] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
333] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
334] 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)
335] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
336] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
337] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
338] 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.
339] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
340] 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)
341] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
342] 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
343] 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.
344] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
345] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
346] 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
347] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
348] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
349] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
350] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
351] 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)
352] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
353] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
354] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
355] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
356] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
357] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
358] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
359] 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
360] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
361] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
362] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
363] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
364] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
365] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
366] 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)
367] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
368] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
369] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
370] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
371] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
372] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
373] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
374] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
375] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
376] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
377] 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
378] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
379] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
380] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
381] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
382] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
383] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
384] 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.
385] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
386] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
387] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
388] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
389] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
390] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
391] 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
392] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
393] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
394] 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.
395] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
396] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
397] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
398] 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.
399] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
400] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
401] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
402] 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.
403] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
404] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
405] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
406] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
407] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
408] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
409] 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.
410] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
411] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
412] 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
413] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
414] 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)
415] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
416] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
417] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
418] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
419] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
420] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
421] 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
422] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
423] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
424] 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
425] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
426] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
427] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
428] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
429] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
430] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
431] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
432] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
433] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
434] 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.
435] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
436] 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
437] 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)
438] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
439] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
440] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
441] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
442] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
443] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
444] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
445] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
446] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
447] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
448] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
449] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
450] 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
451] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
452] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
453] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
454] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
455] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
456] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
457] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
458] 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]
459] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
460] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
461] 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.
462] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
463] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
464] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
465] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
466] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
467] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
468] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
469] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
470] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
471] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
472] 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.
473] 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.
474] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
475] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
476] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
477] 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.
478] 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
479] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
480] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
481] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
482] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
483] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
484] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
485] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
486] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
487] 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.”
488] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
489] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
490] 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
491] 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.
492] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
493] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
494] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
495] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
496] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
497] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
498] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
499] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
500] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
501] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
502] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
503] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
504] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
505] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
506] 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
507] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
508] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
509] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
510] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
511] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
512] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
513] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
514] 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.
515] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
516] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
517] 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.
518] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
519] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
520] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
521] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
522] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
523] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
524] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
525] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
526] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
527] 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
528] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
529] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
530] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
531] 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
532] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
533] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
534] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
535] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
536] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
537] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
538] 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
539] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
540] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
541] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
542] 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.
543] 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)
544] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
545] 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)
546] 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.
547] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
548] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
549] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
550] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
551] 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
552] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
553] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
554] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
555] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
556] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
557] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
558] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
559] 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.
560] 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
561] 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
562] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
563] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
564] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
565] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
566] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
567] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
568] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
569] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
570] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
571] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
572] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
573] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
574] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
575] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
576] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
577] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
578] 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
579] 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.
580] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
581] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
582] 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.
583] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
584] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
585] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
586] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
587] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
588] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
589] 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.
590] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
591] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
592] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
593] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
594] 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)
595] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
596] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
597] 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.
598] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
599] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
600] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)