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1] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
2] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
3] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
4] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
5] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
6] 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
7] 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.
8] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
9] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
10] 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
11] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
12] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
13] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
14] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
15] 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)
16] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
17] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
18] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
19] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
20] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
21] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
22] 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.
23] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
24] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
25] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
26] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
27] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
28] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
29] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
30] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
31] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
32] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
33] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
34] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
35] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
36] 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.
37] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
38] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
39] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
40] Commonsense is not so common.
41] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
42] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
43] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
44] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
45] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
46] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
47] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
48] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
49] 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
50] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
51] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
52] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
53] 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)
54] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
55] 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
56] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
57] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
58] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
59] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
60] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
61] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
62] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
63] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
64] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
65] 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)
66] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
67] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
68] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
69] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
70] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
71] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
72] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
73] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
74] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
75] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
76] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
77] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
78] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
79] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
80] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
81] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
82] 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).
83] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
84] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
85] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
86] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
87] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
88] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
89] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
90] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
91] 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.
92] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
93] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
94] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
95] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
96] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
97] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
98] 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
99] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
100] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
101] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
102] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
103] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
104] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
105] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
106] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
107] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
108] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
109] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
110] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
111] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
112] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
113] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
114] 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)
115] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
116] 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
117] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
118] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
119] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
120] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
121] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
122] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
123] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
124] 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.
125] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
126] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
127] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
128] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
129] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
130] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
131] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
132] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
133] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
134] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
135] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
136] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
137] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
138] 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.
139] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
140] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
141] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
142] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
143] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
144] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
145] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
146] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
147] 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
148] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
149] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
150] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
151] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
152] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
153] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
154] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
155] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
156] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
157] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
158] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
159] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
160] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
161] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
162] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
163] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
164] 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
165] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
166] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
167] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
168] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
169] 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.
170] 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)
171] 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)
172] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
173] 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.
174] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
175] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
176] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
177] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
178] 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.
179] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
180] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
181] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
182] 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
183] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
184] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
185] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
186] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
187] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
188] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
189] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
190] 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.
191] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
192] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
193] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
194] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
195] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
196] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
197] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
198] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
199] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
200] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
201] 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]
202] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
203] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
204] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
205] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
206] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
207] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
208] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
209] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
210] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
211] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
212] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
213] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
214] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
215] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
216] Commonsense is not so common.
217] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
218] 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
219] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
220] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
221] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
222] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
223] 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.
224] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
225] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
226] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
227] 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
228] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
229] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
230] 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
231] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
232] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
233] 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
234] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
235] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
236] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
237] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
238] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
239] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
240] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
241] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
242] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
243] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
244] 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.
245] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
246] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
247] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
248] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
249] 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.
250] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
251] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
252] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
253] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
254] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
255] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
256] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
257] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
258] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
259] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
260] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
261] 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.
262] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
263] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
264] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
265] 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
266] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
267] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
268] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
269] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
270] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
271] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
272] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
273] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
274] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
275] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
276] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
277] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
278] 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 .
279] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
280] 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
281] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
282] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
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] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
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] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
287] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
288] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
289] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
290] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
291] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
292] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
293] 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
294] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
295] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
296] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
297] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
298] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
299] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
300] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
301] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
302] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
303] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
304] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
305] 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.
306] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
307] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
308] 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.
309] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
310] 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
311] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
312] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
313] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
314] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
315] 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.
316] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
317] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
318] 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.
319] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
320] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
321] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
322] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
323] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
324] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
325] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
326] 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
327] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
328] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
329] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
330] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
331] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
332] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
333] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
334] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
335] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
336] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
337] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
338] 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
339] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
340] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
341] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
342] 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.
343] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
344] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
345] 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
346] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
347] 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
348] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
349] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
350] 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.
351] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
352] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
353] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
354] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
355] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
356] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
357] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
358] 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
359] 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.
360] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
361] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
362] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
363] 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.
364] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
365] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
366] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
367] 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
368] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
369] 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.
370] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
371] 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.
372] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
373] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
374] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
375] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
376] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
377] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
378] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
379] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
380] 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
381] 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
382] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
383] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
384] 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
385] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
386] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
387] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
388] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
389] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
390] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
391] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
392] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
393] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
394] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
395] 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.
396] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
397] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
398] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
399] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
400] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
401] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
402] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
403] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
404] 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
405] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
406] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
407] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
408] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
409] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
410] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
411] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
412] 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)
413] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
414] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
415] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
416] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
417] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
418] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
419] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
420] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
421] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
422] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
423] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
424] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
425] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
426] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
427] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
428] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
429] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
430] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
431] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
432] 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
433] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
434] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
435] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
436] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
437] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
438] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
439] 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.
440] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
441] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
442] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
443] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
444] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
445] 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
446] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
447] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
448] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
449] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
450] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
451] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
452] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
453] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
454] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
455] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
456] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
457] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
458] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
459] 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
460] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
461] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
462] 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.
463] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
464] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
465] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
466] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
467] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
468] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
469] 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
470] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
471] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
472] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
473] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
474] 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
475] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
476] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
477] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
478] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
479] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
480] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
481] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
482] 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.
483] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
484] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
485] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
486] 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
487] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
488] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
489] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
490] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
491] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
492] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
493] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
494] 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
495] 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
496] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
497] 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.
498] 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)
499] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
500] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
501] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
502] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
503] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
504] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
505] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
506] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
507] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
508] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
509] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
510] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
511] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
512] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
513] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
514] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
515] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
516] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
517] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
518] 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.
519] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
520] 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.
521] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
522] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
523] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
524] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
525] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
526] 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.
527] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
528] 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)
529] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
530] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
531] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
532] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
533] 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.
534] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
535] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
536] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
537] 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.
538] 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)
539] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
540] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
541] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
542] 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.
543] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
544] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
545] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
546] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
547] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
548] 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)
549] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
550] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
551] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
552] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
553] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
554] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
555] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
556] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
557] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
558] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
559] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
560] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
561] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
562] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
563] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
564] 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
565] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
566] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
567] 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.
568] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
569] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
570] 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.
571] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
572] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
573] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
574] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
575] 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.
576] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
577] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
578] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
579] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
580] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
581] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
582] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
583] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
584] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
585] 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.
586] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
587] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
588] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
589] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
590] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
591] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
592] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
593] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
594] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
595] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
596] 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
597] 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.
598] 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.
599] 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
600] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche