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1] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
2] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
3] 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.
4] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
5] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
6] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
7] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
8] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
9] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
10] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
11] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
12] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
13] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
14] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
15] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
16] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
17] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
18] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
19] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
20] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
21] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
22] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
23] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
25] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
26] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
27] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
28] 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
29] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
30] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
31] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
32] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
33] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
34] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
35] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
36] 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.
37] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] 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)
39] 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.
40] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
41] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
43] 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.
44] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
45] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
46] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
47] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
48] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
49] 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.
50] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
51] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
52] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
53] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
54] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
55] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
56] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
57] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
58] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
59] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
60] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
61] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
62] 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
63] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
64] 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.
65] 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).
66] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
67] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
68] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
69] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
70] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
71] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
72] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
73] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
74] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
75] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
76] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
77] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
78] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
79] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
80] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
81] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
82] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
83] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
84] 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
85] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
86] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
87] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
88] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
89] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
90] 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.”
91] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
92] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
93] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
94] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
95] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
96] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
97] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
98] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
99] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
100] 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)
101] 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.
102] 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).
103] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
104] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
105] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
106] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
107] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
108] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
109] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
110] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
111] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
112] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
113] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
114] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
115] 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)
116] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
117] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
118] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
119] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
120] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
121] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
122] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
123] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
124] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
125] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
126] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
127] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
128] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
129] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
130] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
131] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
132] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
133] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
134] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
135] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
136] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
137] 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)
138] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
139] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
140] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
141] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
142] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
143] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
144] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
145] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
146] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
147] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
148] 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.
149] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
150] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
151] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
152] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
153] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
154] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
155] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
156] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
157] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
158] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
159] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
160] 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)
161] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
162] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
163] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
164] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
165] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
166] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
167] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
168] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
169] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
170] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
171] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
172] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
173] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
174] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
175] 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
176] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
177] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
178] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
179] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
180] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
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] 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.
183] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
184] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
185] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
186] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
187] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
188] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
189] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
190] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
191] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
192] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
193] 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
194] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
195] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
196] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
197] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
198] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
199] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
200] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
201] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
202] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
203] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
204] 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)
205] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
206] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
207] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
208] 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
209] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
210] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
211] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
212] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
213] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
214] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
215] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
216] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
217] 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]
218] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
219] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
220] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
221] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
222] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
223] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
224] 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
225] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
226] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
227] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
228] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
229] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
230] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
231] 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.
232] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
233] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
234] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
235] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
236] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
237] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
238] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
239] 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.
240] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
241] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
242] 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)
243] 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)
244] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
245] 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).
246] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
247] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
248] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
249] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
250] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
251] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
252] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
253] 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
254] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
255] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
256] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
257] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
258] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
259] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
260] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
261] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
262] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
263] 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.
264] 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
265] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
266] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
267] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
268] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
269] 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.
270] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
271] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
272] 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)
273] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
274] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
275] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
276] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
277] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
278] 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
279] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
280] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
281] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
282] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
283] 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
284] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
285] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
286] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
287] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
288] 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.
289] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
290] 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
291] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
292] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
293] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
294] 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
295] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
296] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
297] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
298] 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)
299] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
300] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
301] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
302] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
303] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
304] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
305] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
306] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
307] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
308] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
309] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
310] 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)
311] 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
312] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
313] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
314] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
315] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
316] 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.
317] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
318] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
319] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
320] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
321] 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
322] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
323] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
324] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
325] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
326] 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)
327] 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.
328] 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.
329] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
330] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
331] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
332] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
333] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
334] 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.
335] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
336] 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
337] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
338] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
339] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
340] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
341] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
342] 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.
343] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
344] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
345] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
346] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
347] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
348] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
349] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
350] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
351] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
352] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
353] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
354] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
355] 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)
356] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
357] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
358] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
359] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
360] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
361] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
362] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
363] 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.
364] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
365] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
366] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
367] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
368] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
369] 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)
370] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
371] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
372] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
373] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
374] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
375] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
376] 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.
377] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
378] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
379] 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.
380] 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.
381] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
382] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
383] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
384] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
385] 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.
386] 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
387] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
388] 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)
389] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
390] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
391] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
392] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
393] 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
394] 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.
395] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
396] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
397] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
398] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
399] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
400] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
401] 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
402] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
403] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
404] 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
405] 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
406] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
407] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
408] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
409] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
410] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
411] 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
412] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
413] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
414] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
415] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
416] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
417] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
418] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
419] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
420] 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.
421] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
422] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
423] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
424] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
425] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
426] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
427] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
428] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
429] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
430] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
431] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
432] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
433] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
434] 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.
435] 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
436] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
437] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
438] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
439] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
440] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
441] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
442] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
443] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
444] 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
445] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
446] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
447] 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)
448] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
449] 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.
450] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
451] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
452] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
453] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
454] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
455] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
456] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
457] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
458] 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.
459] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
460] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
461] 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
462] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
463] 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
464] 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.
465] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
466] 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)
467] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
468] 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.
469] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
470] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
471] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
472] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
473] 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.
474] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
475] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
476] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
477] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
478] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
479] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
480] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
481] 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.
482] 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
483] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
484] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
485] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
486] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
487] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
488] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
489] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
490] 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)
491] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
492] 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.
493] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
494] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
495] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
496] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
497] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
498] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
499] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
500] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
501] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
502] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
503] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
504] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
505] 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)
506] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
507] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
508] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
509] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
510] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
511] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
512] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
513] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
514] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
515] 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)
516] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
517] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
518] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
519] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
520] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
521] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
522] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
523] 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.
524] 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
525] 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
526] 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
527] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
528] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
529] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
530] 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 .
531] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
532] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
533] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
534] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
535] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
536] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
537] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
538] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
539] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
540] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
541] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
542] 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.
543] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
544] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
545] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
546] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
547] 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.
548] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
549] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
550] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
551] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
552] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
553] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
554] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
555] 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.
556] 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.
557] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
558] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
559] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
560] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
561] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
562] 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
563] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
564] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
565] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
566] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
567] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
568] 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.
569] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
570] 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.
571] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
572] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
573] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
574] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
575] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
576] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
577] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
578] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
579] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
580] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
581] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
582] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
583] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
584] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
585] 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)
586] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
587] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
588] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
589] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
590] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
591] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
592] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
593] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
594] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
595] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
596] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
597] 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.
598] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
599] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
600] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz