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1] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
2] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
3] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
4] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
5] 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
6] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
7] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
8] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
9] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
10] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
11] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
12] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
13] 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
14] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
15] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
16] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
17] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
18] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
20] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
21] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
22] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
23] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
24] 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)
25] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
26] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
27] 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.
28] 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)
29] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
30] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
31] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
32] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
33] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
34] 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).
35] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
36] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
37] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
38] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
39] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
40] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
41] 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.
42] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
43] 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
44] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
45] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
46] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
47] 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
48] 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)
49] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
50] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
51] 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.
52] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
53] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
54] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
55] 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]
56] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
57] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
58] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
59] 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.
60] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
61] 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
62] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
63] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
64] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
65] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
66] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
67] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
68] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
69] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
70] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
71] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
72] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
73] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
74] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
75] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
76] 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)
77] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
78] 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 .
79] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
80] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
81] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
82] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
83] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
84] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
85] 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.
86] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
87] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
88] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
89] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
90] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
91] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
92] 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.
93] 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
94] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
95] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
96] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
97] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
98] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
99] 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.
100] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
101] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
102] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
103] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
104] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
105] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
106] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
107] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
108] 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.
109] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
110] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
111] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
112] 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.
113] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
114] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
115] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
116] 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)
117] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
118] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
119] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
120] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
121] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
122] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
123] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
124] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
125] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
126] 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.
127] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
128] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
129] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
130] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
131] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
132] 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.
133] 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)
134] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
135] 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
136] 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
137] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
138] 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.
139] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
140] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
141] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
142] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
143] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
144] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
145] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
146] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
147] 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)
148] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
149] 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.
150] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
151] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
152] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
153] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
154] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
155] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
156] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
157] 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.
158] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
159] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
160] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
161] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
162] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
163] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
164] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
165] 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
166] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
167] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
168] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
169] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
170] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
171] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
172] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
173] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
174] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
175] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
176] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
177] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
178] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
179] 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
180] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
181] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
182] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
183] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
184] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
185] 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.
186] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
187] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
188] 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)
189] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
190] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
191] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
192] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
193] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
194] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
195] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
196] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
197] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
198] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
199] 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
200] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
201] 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.
202] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
203] 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
204] 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.
205] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
206] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
207] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
208] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
209] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
210] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
211] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
212] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
213] 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.
214] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
215] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
216] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
217] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
218] 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
219] 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
220] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
221] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
222] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
223] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
224] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
225] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
226] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
227] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
228] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
229] 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
230] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
231] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
232] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
233] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
234] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
235] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
236] 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
237] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
238] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
239] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
240] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
241] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
242] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
243] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
244] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
245] 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
246] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
247] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
248] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
249] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
250] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
251] 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
252] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
253] 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
254] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
255] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
256] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
257] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
258] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
259] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
260] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
261] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
262] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
263] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
264] 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]
265] 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
266] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
267] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
268] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
269] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
270] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
271] 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
272] 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.
273] 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.
274] 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.
275] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
276] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
277] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
278] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
279] 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.
280] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
281] 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.
282] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
283] 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
284] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
285] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
286] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
287] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
288] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
289] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
290] 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)
291] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
292] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
293] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
294] 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
295] 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 .
296] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
297] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
298] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
299] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
300] 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
301] 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.
302] 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
303] 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
304] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
305] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
306] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
307] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
308] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
309] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
310] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
311] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
312] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
313] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
314] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
315] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
316] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
317] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
318] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
319] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
320] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
321] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
322] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
324] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
325] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
326] 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
327] 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
328] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
329] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
330] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
331] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
332] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
333] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
334] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
335] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
336] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
337] 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.
338] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
339] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
340] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
341] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
343] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
344] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
345] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
346] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
347] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
348] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
349] 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.
350] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
351] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
352] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
353] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
354] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
355] 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
356] 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.
357] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
358] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
359] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
360] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
361] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
362] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
363] 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.
364] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
365] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
366] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
367] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
368] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
369] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
370] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
371] 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.
372] 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.
373] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
374] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
375] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
376] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
377] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
378] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
379] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
380] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
381] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
382] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
383] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
384] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
385] 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.
386] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
387] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
388] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
389] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
390] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
391] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
392] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
393] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
394] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
395] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
396] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
397] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
398] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
399] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
400] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
401] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
402] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
403] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
404] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
405] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
406] 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).
407] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
408] 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
409] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
410] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
411] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
412] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
413] 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
414] 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.
415] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
416] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
417] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
418] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
419] 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.
420] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
421] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
422] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
423] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
424] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
425] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
426] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
427] 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
428] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
429] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
430] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
431] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
432] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
433] 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.
434] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
435] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
436] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
437] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
438] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
439] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
440] 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
441] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
442] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
443] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
444] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
445] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
446] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
447] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
448] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
449] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
450] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
451] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
452] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
453] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
454] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
455] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
456] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
457] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
458] 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.
459] 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.
460] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
461] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
462] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
463] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
464] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
465] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
466] 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
467] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
468] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
469] 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
470] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
471] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
472] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
473] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
474] 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)
475] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
476] 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.
477] 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.
478] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
479] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
480] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
481] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
482] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
483] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
484] 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
485] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
486] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
487] 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.
488] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
489] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
490] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
491] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
492] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
493] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
494] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
495] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
496] 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.
497] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
498] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
499] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
500] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
501] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
502] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
503] 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.
504] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
505] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
506] 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.
507] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
508] 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
509] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
510] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
511] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
512] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
513] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
514] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
515] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
516] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
517] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
518] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
519] 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
520] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
521] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
522] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
523] 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)
524] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
525] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
526] 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
527] 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.
528] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
529] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
530] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
531] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
532] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
533] 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.
534] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
535] 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)
536] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] 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.
538] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
539] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
540] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
541] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
542] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
543] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
544] 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.
545] 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.
546] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
547] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
548] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
549] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
550] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
551] 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.
552] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
553] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
554] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
555] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
556] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
557] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
558] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
559] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
560] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
561] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
562] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
563] 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)
564] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
565] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
566] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
567] 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)
568] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
569] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
570] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
571] 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.
572] 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
573] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
574] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
575] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
576] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
577] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
578] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
579] Commonsense is not so common.
580] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
581] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
582] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
583] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
584] 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)
585] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
586] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
587] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
588] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
589] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
590] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
591] 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.
592] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
593] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
594] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
595] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
596] 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.
597] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
598] 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
599] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
600] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky