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1] 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.
2] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
3] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
4] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
5] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
6] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
7] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
8] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
9] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
10] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
11] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
12] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
13] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
14] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
16] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
17] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
18] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
19] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
20] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
21] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
22] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
23] 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)
24] 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.
25] 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
26] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
27] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
28] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
29] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
30] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
31] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
32] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
33] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
34] 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.
35] 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.
36] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
37] 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.
38] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
39] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
41] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
42] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
43] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
44] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
45] 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.
46] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
47] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
48] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
49] 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)
50] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
51] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
52] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
53] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
54] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
55] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
56] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
57] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
58] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
59] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
60] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
61] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
62] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
63] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
64] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
65] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
66] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
67] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
68] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
69] 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)
70] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
71] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
72] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
73] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
74] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
75] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
76] 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.
77] 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)
78] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
79] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
80] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
81] 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.
82] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
83] 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
84] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
85] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
86] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
87] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
88] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
89] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
90] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
91] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
92] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
93] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
94] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
95] 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.
96] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
97] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
98] 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.
99] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
100] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
101] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
102] 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)
103] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
104] 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.
105] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
106] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
107] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
108] 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.
109] 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
110] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
111] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
112] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
113] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
114] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
115] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
116] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
117] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
118] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
119] 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.
120] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
121] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
122] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
123] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
124] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
125] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
126] 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.
127] 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.
128] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
129] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
130] 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
131] 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
132] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
133] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
134] 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.
135] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
136] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
137] 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.
138] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
139] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
140] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
141] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
142] 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
143] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
144] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
145] 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.
146] 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
147] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
148] 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.
149] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
150] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
151] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
152] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
153] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
154] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
155] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
156] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
157] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
158] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
159] 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.
160] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
161] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
162] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
163] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
164] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
165] 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)
166] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
167] 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.
168] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
169] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
170] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
171] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
172] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
173] 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
174] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
175] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
176] 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
177] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
178] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
179] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
180] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
181] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
182] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
183] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
184] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
185] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
186] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
187] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
188] 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.
189] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
190] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
191] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
192] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
193] 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.
194] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
195] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
196] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
197] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
198] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
199] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
200] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
201] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
202] 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)
203] 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.
204] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
205] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
206] 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.
207] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
208] 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).
209] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
210] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
211] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
212] 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.
213] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
214] 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
215] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
216] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
217] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
218] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
219] 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.
220] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
221] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
222] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
223] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
224] 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
225] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
226] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
227] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
228] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
229] 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
230] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
231] 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.
232] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
233] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
234] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
235] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
236] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
237] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
238] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
239] 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.
240] 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.
241] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
242] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
243] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
244] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
245] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
246] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
247] 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
248] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
249] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
250] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
251] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
252] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
253] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
254] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
255] 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
256] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
257] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
258] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
259] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
260] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
261] 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 .
262] 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.”
263] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
264] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
265] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
266] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
267] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
268] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
269] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
270] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
271] 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.
272] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
273] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
274] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
275] 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.
276] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
277] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
278] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
279] 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)
280] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
281] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
282] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
283] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
284] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
285] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
286] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
287] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
288] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
289] 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)
290] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
291] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
292] 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.
293] 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
294] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
295] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
296] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
297] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
298] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
299] 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
300] 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.
301] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
302] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
303] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
304] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
305] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
306] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
307] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
308] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
309] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
310] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
311] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
312] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
313] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
314] 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.
315] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
316] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
317] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
318] 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
319] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
320] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
321] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
322] 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
323] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
324] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
325] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
326] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
327] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
328] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
329] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
330] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
331] 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.
332] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
333] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
334] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
335] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
336] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
337] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
338] 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.
339] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
340] 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
341] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
342] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
343] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
344] 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.
345] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
346] 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.
347] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
348] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
349] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
350] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
351] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
352] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
353] 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
354] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
355] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
356] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
357] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
358] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
359] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
360] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
361] 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)
362] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
363] 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.
364] 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.
365] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
366] 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
367] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
368] 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.
369] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
370] 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.
371] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
372] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
373] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
374] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
375] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
376] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
377] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
378] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
379] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
380] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
381] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
382] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
383] 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.
384] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
385] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
386] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
387] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
388] 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
389] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
390] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
391] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
392] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
393] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
394] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
395] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
396] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
397] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
398] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
399] 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)
400] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
401] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
402] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
403] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
404] 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]
405] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
406] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
407] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
408] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
409] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
410] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
411] 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.
412] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
413] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
414] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
415] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
416] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
417] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
418] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
419] 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
420] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
421] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
422] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
423] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
424] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
425] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
426] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
427] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
428] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
429] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
430] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
431] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
432] 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.
433] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
434] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
435] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
436] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
437] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
438] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
439] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
440] 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)
441] 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.
442] 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
443] 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
444] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
445] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
446] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
447] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
448] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
449] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
450] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
451] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
452] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
453] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
454] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
455] 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
456] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
457] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
458] 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.
459] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
460] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
461] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
462] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
463] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
464] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
465] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
466] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
467] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
468] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
469] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
470] 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
471] 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
472] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
473] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
474] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
475] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
476] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
477] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
478] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
479] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
480] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
481] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
482] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
483] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
484] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
485] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
486] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
487] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
488] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
489] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
490] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
491] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
492] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
493] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
494] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
495] 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.
496] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
497] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
498] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
499] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
500] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
501] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
502] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
503] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
504] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
505] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
506] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
507] 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).
508] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
509] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
510] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
511] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
512] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
513] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
514] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
515] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
516] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
517] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
518] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
519] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
520] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
521] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
522] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
523] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
524] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
525] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
526] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
527] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
528] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
529] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
530] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
531] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
532] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
533] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
534] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
535] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
536] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
537] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
538] 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.
539] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
540] 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
541] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
542] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
543] 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)
544] 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
545] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
546] 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)
547] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
548] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
549] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
550] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
551] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
552] 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)
553] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
554] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
555] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
556] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
557] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
558] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
559] 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
560] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
561] 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.
562] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
563] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
564] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
565] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
566] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
567] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
568] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
569] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
570] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
571] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
572] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
573] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
574] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
575] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
576] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
577] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
578] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
579] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
580] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
581] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
582] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
583] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
584] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
585] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
586] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
587] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
588] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
589] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
590] 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)
591] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
592] 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
593] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
594] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
595] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
596] 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
597] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
598] 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)
599] 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
600] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.