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1] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
2] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
3] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
4] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
5] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
6] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
7] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
8] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
9] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
10] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
11] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
12] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
13] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
14] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
15] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
16] 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)
17] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
18] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
20] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
21] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
22] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
23] 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.
24] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
25] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
26] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
27] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
28] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
29] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
30] 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 .
31] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
32] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
33] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
34] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
35] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
36] 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
37] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
38] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
39] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
40] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
42] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
43] 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.
44] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
45] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
47] 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.
48] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
49] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
50] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
51] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
52] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
53] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
54] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
55] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
56] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
57] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
58] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
59] 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
60] 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)
61] 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)
62] 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.
63] 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.
64] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
65] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
66] 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)
67] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
68] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
69] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
70] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
71] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
72] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
73] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
74] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
75] 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
76] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
77] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
78] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
79] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
80] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
81] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
82] 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
83] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
84] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
85] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
86] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
87] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
88] 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)
89] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
90] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
91] 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.
92] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
93] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
94] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
95] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
96] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
97] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
98] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
99] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
100] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
101] 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.
102] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
103] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
104] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
105] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
106] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
107] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
108] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
109] 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)
110] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
111] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
112] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
113] 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)
114] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
115] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
116] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
117] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
118] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
119] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
120] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
121] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
122] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
123] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
124] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
125] 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
126] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
127] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
128] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
129] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
130] 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)
131] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
132] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
133] 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]
134] 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.
135] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
136] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
137] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
138] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
139] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
140] 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.
141] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
142] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
143] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
144] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
145] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
146] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
147] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
148] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
149] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
150] 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)
151] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
152] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
153] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
154] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
155] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
156] 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
157] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
158] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
159] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
160] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
161] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
162] 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
163] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
164] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
165] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
166] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
167] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
168] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
169] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
170] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
171] 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.
172] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
173] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
174] 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.
175] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
176] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
177] 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.
178] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
179] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
180] 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)
181] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
182] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
183] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
184] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
185] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
186] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
187] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
188] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
189] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
190] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
191] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
192] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
193] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
194] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
195] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
196] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
197] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
198] 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
199] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
200] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
201] 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.
202] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
203] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
204] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
205] 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.
206] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
207] 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
208] 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)
209] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
210] 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.
211] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
212] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
213] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
214] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
215] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
216] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
217] 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)
218] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
219] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
220] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
221] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
222] 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.
223] 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
224] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
225] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
226] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
227] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
228] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
229] 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
230] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
231] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
232] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
233] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
235] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
236] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
237] 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.
238] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
239] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
240] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
241] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
242] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
243] 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.”
244] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
245] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
246] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
247] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
248] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
249] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
250] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
251] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
252] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
253] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
254] 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.
255] 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
256] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
257] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
258] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
259] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
260] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
261] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
262] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
263] 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.
264] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
265] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
266] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
267] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
268] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
269] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
270] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
271] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
272] 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)
273] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
274] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
275] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
276] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
277] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
278] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
279] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
280] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
281] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
282] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
283] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
284] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
285] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
286] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
287] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
288] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
289] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
290] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
291] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
292] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
293] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
294] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
295] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
296] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
297] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
298] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
299] 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.
300] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
301] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
302] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
303] 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.
304] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
305] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
306] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
307] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
308] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
309] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
310] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
311] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
312] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
313] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
314] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
315] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
316] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
317] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
318] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
319] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
320] 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.
321] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
322] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
323] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
324] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
325] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
326] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
327] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
328] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
329] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
330] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
331] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
332] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
333] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
334] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
335] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
336] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
337] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
338] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
339] 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.
340] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
341] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
342] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
343] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
344] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
345] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
346] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
347] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
348] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
349] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
350] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
351] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
352] 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.
353] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
354] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
355] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
356] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
357] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
358] 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.
359] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
360] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
361] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
362] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
363] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
364] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
365] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
366] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
367] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
368] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
369] 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.
370] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
371] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
372] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
373] 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.
374] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
375] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
376] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
377] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
378] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
379] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
380] 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)
381] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
382] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
383] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
384] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
385] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
386] 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)
387] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
388] 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.
389] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
390] 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
391] 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
392] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
393] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
394] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
395] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
396] 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)
397] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
398] 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.
399] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
400] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
401] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
402] 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
403] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
404] 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.
405] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
406] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
407] 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.
408] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
409] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
410] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
411] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
412] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
413] 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.
414] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
415] 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.
416] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
417] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
418] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
419] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
420] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
421] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
422] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
423] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
424] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
425] 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).
426] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
427] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
428] 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.
429] 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.
430] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
431] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
432] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
433] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
434] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
435] 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
436] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
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] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
439] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
440] 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.
441] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
442] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
443] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
444] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
445] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
446] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
447] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
448] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
449] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
450] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
451] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
452] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
453] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
454] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
455] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
456] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
457] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
458] 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)
459] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
460] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
461] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
462] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
463] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
464] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
465] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
466] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
467] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
468] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
469] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
470] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
471] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
472] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
473] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
474] 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.
475] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
476] 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
477] 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
478] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
479] 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.
480] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
481] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
482] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
483] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
484] 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)
485] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
486] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
487] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
488] 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
489] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
490] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
491] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
492] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
493] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
494] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
495] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
496] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
497] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
498] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
499] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
500] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
501] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
502] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
503] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
504] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
505] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
506] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
507] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
508] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
509] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
510] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
511] 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.
512] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
513] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
514] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
515] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
516] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
517] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
518] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
519] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
520] 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
521] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
522] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
523] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
524] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
525] 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)
526] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
527] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
528] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
529] 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.
530] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
531] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
532] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
533] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
534] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
535] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
536] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
537] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
538] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
539] 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.
540] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
541] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
542] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
543] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
544] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
545] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
546] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
547] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
548] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
549] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
550] 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
551] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
552] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
553] 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
554] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
555] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
556] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
557] 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
558] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
559] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
560] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
561] 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
562] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
563] 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
564] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
565] 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.
566] 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.
567] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
568] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
569] 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
570] 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
571] 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
572] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
573] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
574] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
575] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
576] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
577] 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
578] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
579] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
580] 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.
581] 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)
582] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
583] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
584] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
585] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
586] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
587] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
588] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
589] 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
590] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
591] 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
592] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
593] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
594] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
595] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
596] 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
597] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
598] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
599] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
600] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.