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1] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
2] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
3] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
4] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
5] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
6] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
7] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
8] 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.
9] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
10] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
11] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
12] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
13] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
14] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
15] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
16] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
17] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
18] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
19] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
20] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
21] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
22] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
23] 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
24] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
25] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
26] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
27] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
28] 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)
29] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
30] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
31] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
32] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
33] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
34] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
35] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
36] 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.
37] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
38] 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.
39] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
40] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
41] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
42] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
43] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
44] 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.
45] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
46] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
47] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
49] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
50] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
51] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
52] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
53] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
54] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
55] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
56] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
57] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
58] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
59] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
60] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
61] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
62] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
63] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
64] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
65] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
66] 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)
67] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
68] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
69] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
70] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
71] 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.
72] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
73] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
74] 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
75] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
76] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
77] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
78] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
79] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
80] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
81] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
82] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
83] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
84] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
85] 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
86] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
87] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
88] 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.
89] 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
90] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
91] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
92] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
93] 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.
94] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
95] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
96] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
97] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
98] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
99] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
100] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
101] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
102] 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.
103] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
104] 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)
105] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
106] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
107] 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.
108] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
109] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
110] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
111] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
112] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
113] 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.
114] 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.
115] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
116] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
117] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
118] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
120] 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)
121] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
122] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
123] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
124] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
125] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
126] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
127] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
128] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
129] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
130] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
131] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
132] 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
133] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
134] 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
135] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
136] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
137] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
138] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
139] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
140] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
141] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
142] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
143] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
144] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
145] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
146] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
147] 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
148] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
149] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
150] 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.
151] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
152] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
153] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
154] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
155] 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.
156] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
157] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
158] 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
159] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
160] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
161] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
162] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
163] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
164] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
165] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
166] 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)
167] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
168] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
169] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
170] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
171] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
172] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
173] 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
174] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
175] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
176] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
177] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
178] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
179] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
180] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
181] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
182] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
183] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
184] 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).
185] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
186] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
187] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
188] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
189] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
190] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
191] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
192] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
193] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
194] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
195] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
196] 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)
197] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
198] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
199] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
200] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
201] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
202] 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.
203] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
204] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
205] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
206] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
207] 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.
208] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
209] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
210] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
211] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
212] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
213] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
214] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
215] 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)
216] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
217] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
218] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
219] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
220] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
221] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] 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.
223] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
225] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
226] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
227] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
228] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
229] 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.
230] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
231] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
232] 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)
233] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
234] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
235] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
236] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
237] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
238] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
239] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
240] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
241] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
242] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
243] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
244] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
245] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
246] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
247] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
248] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
249] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
250] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
251] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
252] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
253] 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.
254] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
255] 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
256] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
257] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
258] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
259] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
260] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
261] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
262] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
263] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
264] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
265] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
266] 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
267] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
268] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
269] 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
270] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
271] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
272] 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.
273] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
274] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
275] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
276] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
277] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
278] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
279] 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
280] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
281] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
282] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
283] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
284] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
285] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
286] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
287] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
288] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
289] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
290] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
291] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
292] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
293] 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.
294] 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
295] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
296] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
297] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
298] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
299] 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.
300] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
301] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
302] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
303] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
304] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
305] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
306] 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
307] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
308] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
309] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
310] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
311] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
312] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
313] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
314] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
315] 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
316] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
317] 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
318] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
319] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
320] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
321] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
322] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
323] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
324] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
325] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
326] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
327] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
328] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
329] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
330] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
331] 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 .
332] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
333] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
334] 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.
335] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
336] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
337] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
338] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
339] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
340] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
341] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
342] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
343] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
344] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
345] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
346] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
347] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
348] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
349] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
350] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
351] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
352] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
353] 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)
354] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
355] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
356] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
357] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
358] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
359] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
360] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
361] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
362] 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.
363] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
364] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
365] 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
366] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
367] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
368] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
369] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
370] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
371] 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)
372] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
373] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
374] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
375] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
376] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
377] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
378] 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.
379] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
380] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
381] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
382] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
383] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
384] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
385] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
386] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
387] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
388] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
389] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
390] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
391] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
392] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
393] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
394] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
395] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
396] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
397] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
398] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
399] 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.
400] Commonsense is not so common.
401] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
402] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
403] 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
404] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
405] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
406] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
407] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
408] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
409] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
410] 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.
411] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
412] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
413] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
414] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
415] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
416] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
417] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
418] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
419] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
420] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
421] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
422] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
423] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
424] 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.
425] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
426] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
427] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
428] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
429] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
430] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
431] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
432] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
433] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
434] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
435] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
436] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
437] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
438] 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)
439] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
440] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
441] 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.
442] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
443] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
444] 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)
445] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
446] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
447] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
448] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
449] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
450] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
451] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
452] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
453] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
454] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
455] 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
456] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
457] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
458] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
459] 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)
460] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
461] 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.
462] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
463] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
464] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
465] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
466] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
467] Commonsense is not so common.
468] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
469] 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.
470] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
471] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
472] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
473] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
474] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
475] 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.
476] 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.
477] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
478] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
479] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
480] 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.
481] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
482] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
483] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
484] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
485] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
486] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
487] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
488] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
489] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
490] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
491] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
492] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
493] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
494] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
495] 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
496] 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.
497] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
498] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
499] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
500] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
501] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
502] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
503] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
504] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
505] 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
506] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
507] 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.
508] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
509] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
510] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
511] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
512] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
513] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
514] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
515] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
516] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
517] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
518] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
519] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
520] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
521] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
522] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
523] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
524] 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
525] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
526] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
527] 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.
528] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
529] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
530] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
531] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
532] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
533] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
534] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
535] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
536] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
537] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
538] 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
539] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
540] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
541] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
542] 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
543] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
544] 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.
545] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
546] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
547] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
548] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
549] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
550] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
551] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
552] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
553] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
554] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
555] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
556] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
557] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
558] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
559] 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
560] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
561] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
562] 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.
563] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
564] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
565] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
566] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
567] 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
568] 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.
569] 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.
570] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
571] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
572] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
573] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
574] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
575] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
576] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
577] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
578] 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)
579] 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.
580] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
581] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
582] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
583] 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.
584] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
585] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
586] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
587] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
588] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
589] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
590] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
591] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
592] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
593] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
594] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
595] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
596] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
597] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
598] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
599] 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
600] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski