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1] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
2] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
3] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
4] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
5] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
6] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
7] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
8] 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.
9] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
10] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
11] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
12] 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
13] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
14] 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.
15] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
16] 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)
17] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
18] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
19] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
20] 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.
21] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
22] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
23] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
24] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
25] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
26] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
27] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
28] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
29] Commonsense is not so common.
30] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
31] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
32] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
33] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
34] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
35] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
36] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
37] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
38] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
39] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
40] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
41] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
42] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
43] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
44] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
45] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
46] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
47] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
48] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
49] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
50] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
51] 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
52] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
53] 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.
54] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
55] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
56] 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
57] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
58] 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.
59] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
60] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
61] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
62] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
63] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
64] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
65] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
66] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
67] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
68] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
69] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
70] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
71] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
72] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
73] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
74] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
75] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
76] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
77] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
78] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
79] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
80] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
81] 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
82] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
83] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
84] 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
85] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
86] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
87] 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
88] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
89] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
90] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
91] 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
92] 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
93] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
94] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
95] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
96] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
97] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
98] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
99] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
100] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
101] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
102] 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
103] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
104] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
105] 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.
106] 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.
107] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
108] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
109] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
110] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
111] 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
112] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
113] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
114] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
115] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
116] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
117] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
118] 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 .
119] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
120] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
121] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
122] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
123] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
124] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
125] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
126] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
127] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
128] 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
129] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
130] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
131] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
132] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
133] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
134] 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
135] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
136] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
137] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
138] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
139] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
140] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
141] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
142] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
143] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
145] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
146] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
147] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
148] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
149] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
150] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
151] 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
152] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
153] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
154] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
155] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
156] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
157] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
158] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
159] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
160] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
161] 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
162] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
163] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
164] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
165] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
166] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
167] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
168] 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.
169] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
170] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
171] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
172] 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
173] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
174] 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
175] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
176] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
177] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
178] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
179] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
180] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
181] 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.
182] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
183] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
184] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
185] 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)
186] 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
187] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
188] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
189] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
190] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
191] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
192] 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.
193] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
194] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
195] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
196] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
197] 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
198] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
199] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
200] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
201] 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.
202] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
203] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
204] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
205] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
206] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
207] 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)
208] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
209] 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.
210] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
211] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
212] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
213] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
214] 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.
215] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
216] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
217] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
218] 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.”
219] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
220] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
221] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
222] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
223] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
224] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
225] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
226] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
227] 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.
228] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
229] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
230] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
231] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
232] 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
233] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
234] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
235] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
236] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
237] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
238] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
239] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
240] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
241] 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
242] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
243] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
244] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
245] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
246] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
247] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
248] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
249] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
250] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
251] 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.
252] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
253] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
254] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
255] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
256] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
257] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
258] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
259] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
260] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
261] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
262] 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)
263] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
264] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
265] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
266] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
267] 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.
268] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
269] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
270] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
271] 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]
272] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
273] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
274] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
275] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
276] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
277] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
278] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
279] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
280] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
281] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
282] 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)
283] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
284] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
285] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
286] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
287] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
288] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
289] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
290] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
291] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
292] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
293] 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.
294] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
295] 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.
296] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
297] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
298] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
299] 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.
300] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
301] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
302] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
303] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
304] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
305] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
306] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
307] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
308] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
309] 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.
310] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
311] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
312] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
313] 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.
314] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
315] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
316] 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
317] 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.
318] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
319] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
320] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
321] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
322] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
323] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
324] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
325] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
326] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
327] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
328] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
329] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
330] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
331] 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.
332] 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
333] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
334] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
335] 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.
336] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
337] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
338] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
339] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
340] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
341] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
342] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
343] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
344] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
345] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
346] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
347] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
348] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
349] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
350] 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
351] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
352] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
353] 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.
354] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
355] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
356] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
357] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
358] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
359] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
360] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
361] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
362] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
363] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
364] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
365] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
366] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
367] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
368] 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.
369] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
370] 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.
371] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
372] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
373] 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
374] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
375] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
376] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
377] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
378] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
379] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
380] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
381] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
382] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
383] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
384] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
385] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
386] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
387] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
388] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
389] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
390] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
391] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
392] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
393] 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)
394] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
395] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
396] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
397] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
398] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
399] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
400] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
401] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
402] 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
403] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
404] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
405] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
406] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
407] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
408] 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.
409] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
410] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
411] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
412] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
413] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
414] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
415] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
416] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
417] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
418] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
419] 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.
420] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
421] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
422] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
423] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
424] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
425] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
426] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
427] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
428] 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.
429] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
430] 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
431] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
432] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
433] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
434] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
435] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
436] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
437] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
438] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
439] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
440] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
441] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
442] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
443] 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)
444] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
445] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
446] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
447] 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
448] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
449] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
450] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
451] 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
452] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
453] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
454] 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.
455] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
456] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
457] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
458] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
459] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
460] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
461] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
462] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
463] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
464] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
465] 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.
466] 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.
467] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
468] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
469] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
470] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
471] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
472] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
473] 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
474] 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.
475] 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.
476] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
477] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
478] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
479] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
480] 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
481] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
482] Commonsense is not so common.
483] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
484] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
485] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
487] 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.
488] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
489] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
490] 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.
491] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
492] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
493] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
494] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
495] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
496] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
497] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
498] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
499] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
500] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
501] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
502] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
503] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
504] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
505] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
506] 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
507] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
508] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
509] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
510] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
511] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
512] 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.
513] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
514] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
515] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
516] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
517] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
518] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
519] 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).
520] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
521] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
522] 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
523] 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
524] 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).
525] 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)
526] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
527] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
528] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
529] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
530] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
531] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
532] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
533] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
534] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
535] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
536] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
537] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
538] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
539] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
540] 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
541] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
542] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
543] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
544] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
545] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
546] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
547] 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)
548] 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.
549] 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.
550] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
551] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
552] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
553] 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)
554] 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.
555] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
556] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
557] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
558] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
559] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
560] 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
561] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
562] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
563] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
564] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
565] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
566] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
567] 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.
568] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
569] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
570] 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
571] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
572] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
573] 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)
574] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
575] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
576] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
577] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
578] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
579] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
580] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
581] 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
582] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
583] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
584] 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.
585] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
586] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
587] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
588] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
589] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
590] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
591] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
592] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
593] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
594] 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.
595] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
596] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
597] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
598] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
599] 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)
600] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner