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1] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
2] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
3] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
4] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
5] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
6] 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.
7] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
8] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
9] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
10] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
11] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
12] 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
13] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
14] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
15] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
16] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
17] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
18] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
19] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
20] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
21] 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
22] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
23] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
24] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
25] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
26] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
27] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
28] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
29] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
30] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
31] 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.
32] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
33] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
34] 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.
35] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
36] 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.
37] 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
38] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
39] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
40] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
41] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
42] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
43] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
44] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
45] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
46] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
47] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
48] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
49] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
50] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
51] 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)
52] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
53] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
54] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
55] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
56] 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
57] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
58] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
59] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
60] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
61] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
62] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
63] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
64] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
65] 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.
66] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
67] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
68] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
69] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
70] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
71] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
72] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
73] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
74] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
75] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
76] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
77] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
78] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
79] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
80] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
81] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
82] 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.
83] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
84] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
85] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
86] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
87] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
88] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
89] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
90] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
91] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
92] 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)
93] 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)
94] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
95] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
96] 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)
97] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
98] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
99] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
100] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
101] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
102] 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)
103] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
104] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
105] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
106] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
107] 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)
108] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
109] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
110] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
111] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
112] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
113] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
114] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
115] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
116] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
117] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
118] 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.
119] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
120] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
121] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
122] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
123] 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
124] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
125] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
126] 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
127] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
128] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
129] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
130] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
131] 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
132] 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
133] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
134] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
135] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
136] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
137] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
138] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
139] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
140] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
141] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
142] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
143] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
144] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
145] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
146] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
147] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
148] 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.
149] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
150] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
151] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
152] 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.
153] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
154] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
155] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
156] 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
157] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
158] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
159] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
160] 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.
161] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
162] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
163] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
164] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
165] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
166] 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.
167] 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)
168] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
169] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
170] 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
171] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
172] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
173] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
174] 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.
175] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
176] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
177] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
178] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
179] 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.
180] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
181] 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.
182] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
183] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
184] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
185] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
186] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
187] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
188] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
189] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
190] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
191] 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.
192] 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]
193] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
194] 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.
195] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
196] 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
197] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
198] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
199] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
200] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
201] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
202] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
203] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
204] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
205] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
206] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
207] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
208] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
209] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
210] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
211] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
212] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
213] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
214] 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)
215] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
216] 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)
217] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
218] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
219] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
220] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
221] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
222] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
223] 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
224] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
225] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
226] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
227] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
228] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
229] 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.
230] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
231] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
232] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
233] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
234] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
235] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
236] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
237] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
238] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
239] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
240] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
241] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
242] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
243] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
244] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
245] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
246] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
247] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
248] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
249] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
250] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
251] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
252] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
253] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
254] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
255] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
256] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
257] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
258] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
259] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
260] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
261] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
262] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
263] 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
264] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
265] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
266] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
267] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
268] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
269] 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.
270] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
271] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
272] 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.
273] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
274] 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.
275] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
276] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
277] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
278] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
279] 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).
280] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
281] 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.
282] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
283] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
284] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
285] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
286] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
287] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
288] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
289] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
290] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
291] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
292] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
293] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
294] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
295] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
296] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
297] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
298] 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.
299] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
300] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
301] 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
302] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
303] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
304] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
305] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
306] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
307] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
308] 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.
309] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
310] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
311] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
312] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
313] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
314] 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.
315] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
316] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
317] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
318] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
319] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
320] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
322] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
323] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
324] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
325] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
326] 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)
327] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
328] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
329] 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.
330] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
331] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
332] 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.
333] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
334] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
335] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
336] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
337] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
338] 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.
339] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
340] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
341] 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.
342] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
343] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
344] 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)
345] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
346] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
347] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
348] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
349] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
350] 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.
351] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
352] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
353] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
354] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
355] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
356] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
357] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
358] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
359] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
360] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
361] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
362] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
363] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
364] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
365] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
366] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
367] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
368] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
369] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
370] 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
371] 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)
372] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
373] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
374] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
375] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
376] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
377] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
378] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
379] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
380] 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
381] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
382] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
383] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
384] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
385] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
386] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
387] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
388] 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.
389] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
390] 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.
391] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
392] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
393] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
394] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
395] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
396] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
397] 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.
398] 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)
399] 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.
400] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
401] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
402] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
403] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
404] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
405] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
406] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
407] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
408] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
409] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
410] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
411] 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
412] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
413] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
414] 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.
415] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
416] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
417] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
418] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
419] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
420] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
421] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
422] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
423] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
424] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
425] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
426] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
427] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
428] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
429] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
430] 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.
431] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
432] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
433] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
434] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
435] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
436] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
437] 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.
438] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
439] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
440] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
441] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
442] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
443] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
444] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
445] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
446] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
447] 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
448] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
449] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
450] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
451] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
452] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
453] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
454] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
455] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
456] 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.
457] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
458] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
459] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
460] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
461] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
462] 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
463] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
464] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
465] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
466] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
467] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
468] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
469] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
470] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
471] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
472] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
473] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
474] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
475] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
476] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
477] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
478] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
479] 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.
480] 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.
481] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
482] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
483] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
484] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
485] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
486] 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)
487] 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)
488] 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)
489] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
490] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
491] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
492] 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
493] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
494] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
495] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
496] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
497] 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
498] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
499] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
500] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
501] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
502] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
503] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
504] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
505] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
506] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
507] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
508] 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
509] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
510] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
511] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
512] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
513] 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
514] 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.
515] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
516] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
517] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
518] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
519] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
520] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
521] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
522] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
523] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
524] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
525] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
526] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
527] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
528] 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
529] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
530] 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
531] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
532] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
533] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
534] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
535] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
536] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
537] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
538] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
539] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
540] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
541] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
542] 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
543] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
544] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
545] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
546] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
547] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
548] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
549] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
550] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
551] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
552] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
553] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
554] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
555] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
556] 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).
557] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
558] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
559] 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.
560] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
561] 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.
562] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
563] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
564] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
565] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
566] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
567] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
568] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
569] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
570] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
571] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
572] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
573] 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
574] 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.
575] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
576] 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.
577] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
578] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
579] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
580] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
581] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
582] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
583] 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.
584] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
585] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
586] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
587] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
588] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
589] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
590] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
591] 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 .
592] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
593] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
594] 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
595] Commonsense is not so common.
596] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
597] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
598] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
599] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
600] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.