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1] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
2] 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
3] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
4] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
5] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
6] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
7] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
8] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
9] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
10] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
11] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
12] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
13] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
14] 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.
15] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
16] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
17] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
18] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
19] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
20] 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
21] 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
22] 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)
23] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
24] 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)
25] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
26] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
27] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
28] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
29] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
30] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
31] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
32] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
33] 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.
34] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
35] 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)
36] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
37] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
38] 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
39] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
40] 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.
41] 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.
42] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
43] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
44] 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.
45] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
46] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
47] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
48] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
49] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
50] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
51] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
52] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
53] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
54] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
55] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
56] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
57] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
58] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
59] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
60] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
61] 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
62] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
63] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
64] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
65] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
66] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
67] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
68] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
69] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
70] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
71] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
72] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
73] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
74] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
75] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
76] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
77] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
78] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
79] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
80] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
81] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
82] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
83] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
84] 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)
85] 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)
86] 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
87] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
88] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
89] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
90] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
91] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
92] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
93] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
94] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
95] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
96] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
97] 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).
98] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
99] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
100] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
101] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
102] 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.
103] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
104] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
105] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
106] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
107] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
108] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
109] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
110] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
111] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
112] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
113] 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.
114] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
115] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
116] 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.
117] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
118] 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.
119] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
120] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
121] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
122] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
123] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
124] 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.
125] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
126] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
127] 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)
128] 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)
129] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
130] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
131] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
132] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
133] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
134] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
135] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
136] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
137] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
138] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
139] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
140] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
141] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
142] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
143] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
144] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
145] 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
146] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
147] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
148] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
149] 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
150] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
151] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
152] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
153] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
154] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
155] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
156] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
157] 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.
158] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
159] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
160] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
161] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
162] 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.
163] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
164] 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.
165] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
166] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
167] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
168] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
169] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
170] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
171] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
172] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
173] 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.
174] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
175] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
176] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
177] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
178] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
179] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
180] 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
181] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
182] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
183] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
184] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
185] 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.
186] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
187] 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
188] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
189] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
190] 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
191] 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
192] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
193] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
194] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
195] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
196] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
197] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
198] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
199] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
200] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
201] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
202] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
203] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
204] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
205] 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.
206] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
207] 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.
208] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
209] 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)
210] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
211] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
212] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
213] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
214] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
215] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
216] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
217] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
218] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
219] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
220] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
221] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
222] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
223] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] 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
225] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
226] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
227] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
228] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
229] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
230] 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)
231] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
232] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
233] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
234] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
235] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
236] 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.
237] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
238] 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.
239] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
240] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
241] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
242] 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
243] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
244] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
245] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
246] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
247] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
248] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
249] 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.
250] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
251] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
252] 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.
253] 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.
254] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
255] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
256] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
257] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
258] 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
259] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
260] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
261] 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)
262] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
263] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
264] 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.
265] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
266] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
267] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
268] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
269] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
270] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
271] 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.
272] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
273] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
274] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
275] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
276] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
277] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
278] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
279] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
280] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
281] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
282] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
283] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
284] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
285] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
286] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
287] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
288] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
289] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
290] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
291] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
292] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
293] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
294] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
295] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
296] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
297] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
298] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
299] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
300] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
301] 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.
302] 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
303] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
304] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
305] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
306] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
307] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
308] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
309] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
310] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
311] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
312] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
313] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
314] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
315] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
316] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
317] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
318] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
319] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
320] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
321] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
322] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
323] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
324] 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
325] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
326] 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.
327] 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.
328] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
329] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
330] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
331] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
332] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
333] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
334] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
335] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
336] 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
337] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
338] 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.
339] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
340] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
341] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
342] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
343] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
344] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
345] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
346] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
347] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
348] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
349] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
350] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
351] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
352] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
353] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
354] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
355] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
356] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
357] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
358] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
359] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
360] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
361] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
362] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
363] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
364] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
365] 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)
366] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
367] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
368] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
369] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
370] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
371] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
372] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
373] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
374] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
375] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
376] 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.
377] 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
378] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
379] 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.
380] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
381] 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)
382] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
383] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
384] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
385] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
386] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
387] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
388] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
389] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
390] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
391] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
392] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
393] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
394] 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
395] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
396] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
397] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
398] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
399] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
400] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
401] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
402] 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
403] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
404] 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.
405] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
406] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
407] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
408] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
409] 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
410] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
411] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
412] 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.
413] 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
414] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
415] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
416] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
417] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
418] 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).
419] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
420] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
421] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
422] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
423] 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.
424] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
425] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
426] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
427] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
428] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
429] 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
430] 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.
431] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
432] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
433] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
434] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
435] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
436] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
437] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
438] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
439] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
440] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
441] 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
442] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
443] 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.
444] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
445] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
446] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
447] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
448] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
449] 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.
450] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
451] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
452] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
453] 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.
454] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
455] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
456] 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
457] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
458] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
459] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
460] 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.
461] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
462] 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.
463] Commonsense is not so common.
464] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
465] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
466] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
467] 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.
468] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
469] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
470] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
471] 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)
472] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
473] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
474] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
475] 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
476] 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
477] 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
478] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
479] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
480] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
481] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
482] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
483] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
484] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
485] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
486] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
487] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
488] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
489] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
490] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
491] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
492] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
493] 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.
494] 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]
495] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
497] 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
498] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
499] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
500] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
501] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
502] 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
503] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
504] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
505] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
506] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
507] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
508] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
509] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
510] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
511] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
512] 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.
513] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
514] 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
515] 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
516] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
517] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
518] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
519] 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
520] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
521] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
522] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
523] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
524] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
525] 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)
526] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
527] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
528] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
529] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
530] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
531] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
532] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
533] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
534] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
535] 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
536] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
537] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
538] 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
539] 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.
540] 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
541] 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
542] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
543] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
544] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
545] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
546] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
547] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
548] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
549] 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.
550] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
551] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
552] 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.
553] 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
554] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
555] 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.
556] 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.
557] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
558] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
559] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
560] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
561] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
562] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
563] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
564] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
565] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
566] 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.
567] 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)
568] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
569] 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).
570] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
571] 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.
572] 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
573] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
574] 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
575] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
576] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
577] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
578] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
579] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
580] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
581] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
582] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
583] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
584] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
585] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
586] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
587] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
588] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
589] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
590] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
591] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
592] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
593] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
594] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
595] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
596] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
597] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
598] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
599] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
600] 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)