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1] 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.
2] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
3] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
4] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
5] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
6] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
7] 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).
8] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
9] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
10] 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
11] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
12] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
13] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
14] 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)
15] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
16] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
17] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
18] 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
19] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
20] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
21] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
22] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
23] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
24] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
25] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
26] 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.
27] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
28] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
29] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
30] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
31] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
32] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
33] 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)
34] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
35] 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.
36] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
37] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
38] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
39] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
40] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
41] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
42] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
43] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
44] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
45] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
47] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
48] 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)
49] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
50] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
51] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
52] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
53] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
54] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
55] 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.
56] 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
57] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
58] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
59] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
60] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
61] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
62] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
63] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
64] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
65] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
66] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
67] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
68] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
69] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
70] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
71] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
72] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
73] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
74] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
75] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
76] 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)
77] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
78] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
79] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
80] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
81] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
82] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
83] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
84] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
85] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
86] 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)
87] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
88] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
89] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
90] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
91] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
92] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
93] 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
94] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
95] 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.
96] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
97] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
98] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
99] 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
100] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
101] 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.
102] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
103] 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
104] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
105] 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.
106] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
107] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
108] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
109] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
111] 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
112] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
113] 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.
114] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
115] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
116] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
117] 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)
118] Commonsense is not so common.
119] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
120] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
121] 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.
122] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
123] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
124] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
125] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
126] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
127] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
128] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
129] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
130] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
131] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
132] 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
133] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
134] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
135] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
136] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
137] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
138] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
139] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
140] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
141] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
142] 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.
143] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
144] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
145] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
146] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
147] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
148] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
149] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
150] 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
151] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
152] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
153] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
154] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
155] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
156] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
157] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
158] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
159] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
160] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
161] 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.
162] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
163] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
164] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
165] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
166] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
167] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
168] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
169] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
170] 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.
171] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
172] 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)
173] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
174] 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
175] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
176] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
177] 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.
178] 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.
179] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
180] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
181] 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.
182] 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
183] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
184] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
185] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
186] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
187] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
188] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
189] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
190] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
191] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
192] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
193] 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
194] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
195] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
196] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
197] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
198] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
199] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
200] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
201] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
202] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
203] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
204] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
205] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
206] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
207] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
208] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
209] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
210] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
211] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
212] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
213] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
214] 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.
215] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
216] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
217] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
218] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
219] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
220] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
221] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
223] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
224] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
225] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
226] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
227] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
228] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
229] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
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] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
232] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
233] 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
234] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
235] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
236] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
237] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
238] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
239] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
240] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
241] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
242] 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.
243] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
244] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
245] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
246] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
247] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
248] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
249] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
250] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
251] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
252] 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.
253] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
254] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
255] 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)
256] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
257] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
258] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
259] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
260] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
261] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
262] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
263] 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
264] 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.
265] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
266] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
267] 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.
268] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
269] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
270] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
271] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
272] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
273] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
274] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
275] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
276] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
277] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
278] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
279] 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
280] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
281] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
282] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
283] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
284] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
285] 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
286] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
287] 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.
288] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
289] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
290] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
291] 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.
292] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
293] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
294] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
295] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
296] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
297] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
298] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
299] Commonsense is not so common.
300] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
301] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
302] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
303] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
304] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
305] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
306] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
307] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
308] 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.
309] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
310] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
311] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
312] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
313] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
314] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
315] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
316] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
317] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
318] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
319] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
320] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
321] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
322] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
323] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
324] 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.
325] 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 .
326] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
327] 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
328] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
329] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
330] 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).
331] 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.
332] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
333] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
334] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
335] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
336] 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.
337] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
338] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
339] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
340] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
341] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
342] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
343] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
344] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
345] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
346] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
347] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
348] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
349] 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)
350] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
351] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
352] 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.
353] 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
354] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
355] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
356] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
357] 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.
358] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
359] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
360] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
361] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
362] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
363] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
364] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
365] 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)
366] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
367] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
368] 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.
369] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
370] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
371] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
372] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
373] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
374] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
375] 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.
376] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
377] 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.
378] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
379] 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
380] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
381] 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
382] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
383] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
384] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
385] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
386] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
387] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
388] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
389] 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
390] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
391] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
392] 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
393] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
394] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
395] 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.
396] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
397] 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
398] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
399] 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.
400] 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.
401] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
402] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
403] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
404] 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.
405] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
406] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
407] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
408] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
409] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
410] 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
411] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
412] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
413] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
414] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
415] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
416] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
417] 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
418] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
419] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
420] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
421] 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.
422] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
423] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
424] 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
425] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
426] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
427] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
428] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
429] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
430] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
431] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
432] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
433] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
434] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
435] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
436] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
437] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
438] 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.
439] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
440] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
441] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
442] 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
443] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
444] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
445] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
446] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
447] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
448] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
449] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
450] 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
451] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
452] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
453] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
454] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
455] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
456] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
457] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
458] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
459] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
460] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
461] 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.
462] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
463] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
464] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
465] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
466] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
467] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
468] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
469] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
470] 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
471] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
472] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
473] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
474] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
475] 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
476] 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.
477] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
478] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
479] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
480] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
481] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
482] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
483] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
484] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
485] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
486] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
487] 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.
488] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
489] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
490] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
491] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
492] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
493] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
494] 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)
495] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
496] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
497] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
498] 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.
499] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
500] 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.
501] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
502] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
503] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
504] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
505] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
506] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
507] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
508] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
509] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
510] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
511] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
512] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
513] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
514] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
515] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
516] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
517] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
518] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
519] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
520] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
521] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
522] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
523] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
524] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
525] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
526] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
527] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
528] 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.
529] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
530] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
531] 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.
532] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
533] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
534] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
535] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
536] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
537] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
538] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
539] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
540] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
541] 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.
542] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
543] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
544] 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)
545] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
546] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
547] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
548] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
549] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
550] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
551] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
552] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
553] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
554] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
555] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
556] 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]
557] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
558] 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.
559] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
560] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
561] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
562] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
563] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
564] 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)
565] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
566] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
567] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
568] 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)
569] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
570] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
571] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
572] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
573] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
574] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
575] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
576] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
577] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
578] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
579] 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
580] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
581] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
582] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
583] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
584] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
585] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
586] 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).
587] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
588] 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.
589] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
590] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
591] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
592] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
593] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
594] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
595] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
596] 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.
597] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
598] 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.
599] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
600] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen