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1] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
2] 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
3] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
4] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
5] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
6] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
7] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
8] 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.
9] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
10] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
11] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
12] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
13] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
14] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
15] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
16] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
17] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
18] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
19] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
20] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
21] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
22] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
23] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
24] 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)
25] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
26] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
27] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
28] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
29] 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.
30] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
31] 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
32] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
33] 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.
34] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
35] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
36] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
37] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
38] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
39] 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.
40] 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.
41] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
42] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
43] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
44] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
45] 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.
46] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
47] 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.
48] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
49] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
50] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
51] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
52] 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
53] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
54] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
55] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
56] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
57] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
58] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
59] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
60] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
61] Commonsense is not so common.
62] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
63] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
64] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
65] 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
66] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
67] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
68] 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.
69] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
70] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
71] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
72] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
73] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
74] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
75] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
76] 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
77] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
78] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
79] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
80] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
81] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
82] 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
83] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
84] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
85] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
86] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
87] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
88] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
89] 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)
90] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
91] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
92] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
93] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
94] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
95] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
96] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
97] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
98] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
99] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
100] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
101] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
102] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
103] 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.
104] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
105] 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.
106] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
107] 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.
108] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
109] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
110] 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
111] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
112] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
113] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
114] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
115] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
116] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
117] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
118] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
119] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
120] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
121] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
122] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
123] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
124] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
125] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
126] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
127] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
128] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
129] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
130] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
131] 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
132] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
133] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
134] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
135] 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)
136] 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)
137] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
138] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
139] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
140] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
141] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
142] 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)
143] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
144] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
145] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
146] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
147] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
148] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
149] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
150] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
151] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
152] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
153] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
154] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
155] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
156] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
157] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
158] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
160] 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
161] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
162] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
163] 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
164] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
165] 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
166] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
167] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
168] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
169] 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.
170] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
171] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
172] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
173] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
174] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
175] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
176] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
177] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
178] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
179] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
180] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
181] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
182] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
183] 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
184] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
185] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
186] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
187] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
188] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
189] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
190] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
191] 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.
192] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
193] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
194] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
195] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
196] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
197] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
198] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
199] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
200] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
201] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
202] 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)
203] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
204] 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.
205] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
206] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
207] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
208] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
209] 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)
210] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
211] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
212] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
213] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
214] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
215] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
216] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
217] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
218] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
219] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
220] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
221] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
222] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
223] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
224] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
225] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
226] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
227] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
228] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
229] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
230] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
231] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
232] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
233] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
234] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
235] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
236] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
237] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
238] 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
239] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
240] 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.
241] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
242] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
243] 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.
244] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
245] 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
246] 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
247] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
248] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
249] 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)
250] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
251] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
252] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
253] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
254] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
255] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
256] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
257] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
258] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
259] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
260] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
261] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
262] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
263] 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
264] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
266] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
267] 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.
268] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
269] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
270] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
271] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
272] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
273] 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
274] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
275] 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.
276] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
277] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
278] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
279] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
280] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
281] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
282] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
283] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
284] 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
285] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
286] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
287] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
288] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
289] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
290] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
291] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
292] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
293] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
294] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
295] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
296] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
297] 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.
298] 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
299] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
300] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
301] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
302] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
303] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
304] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
305] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
306] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
307] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
308] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
309] 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
310] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
311] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
312] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
313] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
314] 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.
315] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
316] 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
317] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
318] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
319] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
320] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
321] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
322] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
323] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
324] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
325] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
326] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
327] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
328] 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)
329] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
330] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
331] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
332] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
333] 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.
334] 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.
335] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
336] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
337] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
338] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
339] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
340] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
341] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
342] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
343] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
344] 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
345] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
346] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
347] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
348] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
349] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
350] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
351] 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
352] 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
353] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
354] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
355] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
356] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
357] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
358] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
359] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
360] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
361] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
362] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
363] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
364] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
365] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
366] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
367] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
368] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
369] 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.
370] 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.
371] 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.
372] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
373] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
374] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
375] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
376] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
377] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
378] 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.
379] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
380] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
381] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
382] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
383] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
384] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
385] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
386] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
387] 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
388] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
389] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
390] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
391] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
392] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
393] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
394] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
395] 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.
396] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
397] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
398] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
399] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
400] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
401] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
402] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
403] 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)
404] 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)
405] 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
406] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
407] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
408] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
409] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
410] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
411] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
412] 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)
413] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
414] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
415] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
416] 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.
417] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
418] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
419] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
420] 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.
421] 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)
422] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
423] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
424] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
425] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
426] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
427] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
428] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
429] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
430] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
431] 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.
432] 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
433] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
434] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
435] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
436] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
437] 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.
438] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
439] 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.
440] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
441] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
442] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
443] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
444] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
445] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
446] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
447] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
448] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
449] 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.
450] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
451] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
452] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
453] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
454] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
455] 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)
456] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
457] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
458] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
459] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
460] 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.
461] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
462] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
463] 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).
464] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
465] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
466] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
467] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
468] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
469] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
470] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
471] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
472] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
473] 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.
474] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
475] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
476] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
477] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
478] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
479] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
480] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
481] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
482] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
483] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
484] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
485] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
486] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
487] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
488] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
489] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
490] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
491] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
492] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
493] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
494] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
495] 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)
496] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
497] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
498] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
499] 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)
500] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
501] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
502] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
503] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
504] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
505] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
506] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
507] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
508] 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).
509] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
510] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
511] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
512] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
513] Commonsense is not so common.
514] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
515] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
516] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
517] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
518] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
519] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
520] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
521] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
522] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
523] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
524] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
525] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
526] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
527] 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
528] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
529] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
530] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
531] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
532] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
533] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
534] 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.
535] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
536] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
537] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
538] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
539] 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 .
540] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
541] 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.
542] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
543] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
544] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
545] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
546] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
547] 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)
548] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
549] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
550] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
551] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
552] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
553] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
554] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
555] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
556] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
557] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
558] 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
559] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
560] 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]
561] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
562] 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.
563] 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
564] 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.”
565] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
566] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
567] 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)
568] 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.
569] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
570] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
571] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
572] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
573] 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.
574] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
575] 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
576] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
577] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
578] 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).
579] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
580] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
581] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
582] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
583] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
584] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
585] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
586] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
587] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
588] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
589] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
590] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
591] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
592] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
593] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
594] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
595] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
596] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
597] 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
598] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
599] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
600] 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.