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1] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
2] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
3] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
4] 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
5] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
6] 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
7] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
8] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
9] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
10] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
11] 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.
12] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
13] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
14] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
15] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
16] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
17] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
18] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
19] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
20] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
21] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
22] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
23] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
24] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
25] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
26] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
27] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
28] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
29] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
30] 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
31] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
32] 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.
33] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
34] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
35] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
36] 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
37] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
38] 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
39] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
40] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
41] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
42] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
43] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
44] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
45] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
46] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
47] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
48] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
49] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
50] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
51] 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)
52] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
53] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
54] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
55] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
56] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
57] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
58] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
59] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
60] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
61] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
62] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
63] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
64] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
65] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
66] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
67] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
68] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
69] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
70] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
71] 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
72] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
73] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
74] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
75] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
76] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
77] 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.
78] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
79] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
80] 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)
81] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
82] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
83] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
84] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
85] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
86] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
87] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
88] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
89] 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.
90] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
91] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
92] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
93] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
94] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
95] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
96] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
97] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
98] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
99] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
100] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
101] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
102] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
103] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
104] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
105] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
106] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
107] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
108] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
109] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
110] 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.
111] 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.
112] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
113] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
114] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
115] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
116] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
117] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
118] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
119] 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
120] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
121] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
122] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
123] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
124] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
125] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
126] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
127] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
128] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
129] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
130] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
131] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
132] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
133] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
134] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
135] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
136] 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.
137] 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.
138] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
139] 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)
140] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
141] 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)
142] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
143] 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.”
144] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
145] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
146] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
147] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
148] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
149] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
150] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
151] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
152] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
153] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
154] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
155] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
156] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
157] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
158] 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)
159] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
160] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
161] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
162] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
163] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
164] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
165] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
166] 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.
167] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
168] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
169] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
170] 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
171] 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
172] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
173] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
174] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
175] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
176] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
177] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
178] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
179] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
180] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
181] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
182] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
183] 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.
184] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
185] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
186] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
187] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
188] 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
189] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
190] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
191] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
192] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
193] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
194] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
195] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
196] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
197] 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)
198] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
199] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
200] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
201] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
202] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
203] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
204] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
205] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
206] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
207] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
208] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
209] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
210] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
211] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
212] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
213] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
214] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
215] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
216] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
217] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
218] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
219] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
220] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
221] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
222] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
223] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
224] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
225] 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
226] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
227] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
228] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
229] 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
230] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
231] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
232] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
233] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
234] 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 .
235] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
236] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
237] 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.
238] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
239] 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.
240] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
241] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
242] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
243] 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.
244] 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
245] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
246] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
247] 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
248] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
249] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
250] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
251] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
252] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
253] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
254] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
255] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
256] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
257] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
258] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
259] 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.
260] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
261] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
262] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
263] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
264] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
266] 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
267] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
268] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
269] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
270] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
271] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
272] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
273] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
274] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
275] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
276] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
277] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
278] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
279] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
280] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
281] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
282] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
283] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
284] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
285] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
286] 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
287] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
288] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
289] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
290] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
291] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
292] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
293] 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.
294] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
295] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
296] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
297] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
298] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
299] 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
300] 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
301] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
302] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
303] 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)
304] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
305] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
306] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
307] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
308] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
309] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
310] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
311] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
312] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
313] 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.
314] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
315] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
316] 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.
317] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
318] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
319] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
320] 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)
321] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
322] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
323] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
324] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
325] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
326] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
327] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
328] 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.
329] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
330] 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.
331] 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
332] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
333] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
334] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
335] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
336] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
337] 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
338] 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.
339] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
340] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
341] 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.
342] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
343] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
344] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
345] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
347] 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.
348] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
349] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
350] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
351] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
352] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
353] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
354] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
355] 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)
356] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
357] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
358] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
359] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
360] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
361] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
362] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
363] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
364] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
365] 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.
366] 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.
367] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
368] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
369] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
370] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
371] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
372] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
373] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
374] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
375] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
376] 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.
377] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
378] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
379] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
380] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
381] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
382] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
383] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
384] 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
385] 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.
386] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
387] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
388] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
389] 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
390] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
391] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
392] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
393] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
394] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
395] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
396] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
397] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
398] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
399] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
400] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
401] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
402] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
403] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
404] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
405] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
406] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
407] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
408] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
409] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
410] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
411] 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.
412] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
413] 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
414] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
415] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
416] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
417] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
418] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
419] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
420] 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
421] 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.
422] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
423] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
424] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
425] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
426] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
427] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
428] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
429] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
430] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
431] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
432] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
433] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
434] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
435] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
436] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
437] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
438] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
439] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
440] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
441] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
442] 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.
443] 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
444] 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.
445] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
446] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
447] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
448] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
449] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
450] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
451] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
452] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
453] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
454] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
455] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
456] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
457] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
458] 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.
459] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
460] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
461] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
462] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
463] 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.
464] 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.
465] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
466] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
467] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
468] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
469] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
470] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
471] 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
472] 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
473] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
474] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
475] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
476] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
477] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
478] 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.
479] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
480] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
481] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
482] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
483] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
484] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
485] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
486] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
487] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
488] 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.
489] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
490] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
491] 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
492] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
493] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
494] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
495] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
496] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
497] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
498] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
499] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
500] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
501] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
502] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
503] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
504] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
505] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
506] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
507] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
508] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
509] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
510] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
511] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
512] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
513] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
514] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
515] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
516] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
517] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
518] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
519] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
520] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
521] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
522] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
523] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
524] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
525] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
526] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
527] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
528] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
529] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
530] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
531] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
532] 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.
533] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
534] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
535] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
536] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
537] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
538] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
539] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
540] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
541] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
542] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
543] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
544] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
545] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
546] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
547] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
548] 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]
549] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
550] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
551] 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.
552] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
553] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
554] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
555] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
556] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
557] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
558] 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).
559] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
560] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
561] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
562] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
563] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
564] 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
565] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
566] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
567] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
568] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
569] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
570] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
571] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
572] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
573] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
574] 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
575] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
576] 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
577] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
578] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
579] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
580] 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.
581] 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.”
582] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
583] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
584] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
585] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
586] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
587] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
588] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
589] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
590] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
591] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
592] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
593] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
594] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
595] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
596] 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
597] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
598] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
599] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
600] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.