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1] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
2] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
3] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
4] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
5] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
6] 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.
7] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
8] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
9] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
10] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
11] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
12] 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
13] 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
14] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
15] 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
16] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
17] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
18] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
19] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
20] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
21] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
22] 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
23] 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)
24] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
25] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
26] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
27] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
28] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
29] 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.
30] 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.
31] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
32] 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.
33] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
34] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
35] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
36] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
37] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
38] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
39] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
40] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
41] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
42] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
43] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
44] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
45] 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)
46] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
47] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
48] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
49] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
50] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
51] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
52] 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
53] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
54] 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.
55] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
56] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
57] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
58] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
59] 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]
60] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
61] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
62] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
63] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
64] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
65] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
66] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
67] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
68] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
69] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
70] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
71] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
72] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
73] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
74] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
75] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
76] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
77] 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.
78] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
79] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
80] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
81] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
82] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
83] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
84] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
85] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
86] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
87] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
88] 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.
89] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
90] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
91] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
92] 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.
93] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
94] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
95] 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
96] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
97] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
98] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
99] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
100] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
101] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
102] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
103] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
104] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
105] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
106] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
107] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
108] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
109] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
110] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
111] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
112] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
113] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
114] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
115] 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
116] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
117] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
118] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
119] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
120] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
121] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
122] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
123] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
124] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
125] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
126] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
127] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
128] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
129] 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.
130] 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
131] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
132] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
133] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
134] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
135] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
136] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
137] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
138] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
139] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
140] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
141] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
142] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
143] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
144] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
145] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
146] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
147] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
148] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
149] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
150] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
151] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
152] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
153] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
154] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
155] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
156] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
157] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
158] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
159] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
160] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
161] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
162] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
163] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
164] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
165] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
166] 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
167] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
168] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
169] 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
170] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
171] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
172] 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.
173] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
174] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
175] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
176] 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)
177] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
178] 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
179] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
180] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
181] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
182] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
183] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
184] 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.
185] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
186] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
187] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
188] 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.
189] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
190] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
191] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
192] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
193] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
194] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
195] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
196] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
197] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
198] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
199] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
200] 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
201] 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
202] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
203] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
204] 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
205] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
206] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
207] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
208] 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)
209] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
210] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
211] 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
212] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
213] 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
214] 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)
215] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
216] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
217] 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.
218] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
219] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
220] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
221] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
222] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
223] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
224] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
225] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
226] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
227] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
228] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
229] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
230] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
231] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
232] 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
233] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
234] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
235] 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.
236] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
237] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
238] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
239] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
240] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
241] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
242] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
243] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
244] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
245] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
246] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
247] 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.
248] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
249] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
250] 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
251] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
252] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
253] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
254] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
255] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
256] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
257] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
258] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
259] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
260] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
261] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
262] 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]
263] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
264] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
266] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
267] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
268] 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.
269] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
270] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
271] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
272] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
273] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
274] 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.
275] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
276] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
277] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
278] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
279] 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)
280] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
281] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
282] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
283] 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.
284] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
285] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
286] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
287] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
288] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
289] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
290] 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
291] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
292] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
293] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
294] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
295] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
296] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
297] 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.”
298] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
299] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
300] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
301] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
302] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
303] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
304] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
305] 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
306] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
307] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
308] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
309] 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.”
310] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
311] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
312] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
313] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
314] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
315] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
316] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
317] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
318] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
319] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
320] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
321] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
322] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
323] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
324] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
325] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
326] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
327] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
328] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
329] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
330] 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
331] 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)
332] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
333] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
334] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
335] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
336] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
337] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
338] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
339] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
340] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
341] 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).
342] 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.
343] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
344] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
345] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
346] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
347] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
348] 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.
349] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
350] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
351] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
352] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
353] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
354] 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.
355] 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)
356] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
357] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
358] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
359] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
360] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
361] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
362] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
363] 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.
364] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
365] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
366] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
367] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
368] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
369] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
370] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
371] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
372] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
373] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
374] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
375] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
376] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
377] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
378] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
379] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
380] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
381] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
382] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
383] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
384] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
385] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
386] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
387] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
388] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
389] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
390] 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.
391] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
392] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
393] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
394] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
395] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
396] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
397] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
398] 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
399] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
400] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
401] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
402] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
403] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
404] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
405] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
406] 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.
407] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
408] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
409] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
410] 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
411] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
412] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
413] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
414] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
415] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
416] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
417] 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
418] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
419] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
420] 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
421] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
422] 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.
423] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
424] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
425] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
426] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
427] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
428] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
429] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
430] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
431] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
432] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
433] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
434] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
435] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
436] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
437] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
438] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
439] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
440] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
441] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
442] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
443] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
444] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
445] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
446] 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.
447] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
448] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
449] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
450] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
451] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
452] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
453] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
454] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
455] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
456] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
457] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
458] 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
459] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
460] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
461] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
462] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
463] 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
464] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
465] 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.
466] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
467] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
468] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
469] 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.
470] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
471] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
472] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
473] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
474] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
475] 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.
476] 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)
477] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
478] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
479] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
480] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
481] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
482] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
483] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
484] 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.
485] 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
486] 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
487] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
488] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
489] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
490] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
491] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
492] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
493] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
494] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
495] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
496] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
497] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
498] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
499] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
500] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
501] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
502] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
503] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
504] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
505] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
506] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
507] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
508] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
509] 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.
510] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
511] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
512] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
513] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
514] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
515] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
516] 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)
517] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
518] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
519] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
520] 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.
521] 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)
522] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
523] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
524] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
525] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
526] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
527] 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.
528] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
529] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
530] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
531] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
532] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
533] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
534] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
535] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
536] 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
537] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
538] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
539] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
540] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
541] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
542] 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.
543] 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
544] 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.
545] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
546] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
547] 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
548] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
549] 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
550] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
551] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
552] 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.
553] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
554] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
555] 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.
556] 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.
557] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
558] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
559] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
560] 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.
561] 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
562] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
563] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
564] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
565] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
566] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
567] 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.
568] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
569] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
570] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
571] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
572] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
573] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
574] 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)
575] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
576] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
577] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
578] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
579] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
580] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
581] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
582] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
583] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
584] 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)
585] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
586] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
587] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
588] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
589] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
590] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
591] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
592] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
593] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
594] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
595] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
596] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
597] 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.
598] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
599] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
600] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.