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1] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
2] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
3] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
4] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
5] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
6] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
7] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
8] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
9] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
10] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
11] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
12] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
13] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
14] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
15] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
16] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
17] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
18] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
19] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
20] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
21] 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.
22] 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
23] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
24] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
25] 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.
26] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
27] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
28] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
29] 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.
30] 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
31] 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.
32] 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.
33] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
34] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
35] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
36] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
37] 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.
38] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
39] 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.
40] 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.
41] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
42] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
43] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
44] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
45] 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.
46] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
47] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
48] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
49] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
50] 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.
51] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
52] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
53] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
54] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
55] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
56] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
57] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
58] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
59] 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
60] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
61] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
62] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
63] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
64] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
65] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
66] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
67] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
68] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
69] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
70] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
71] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
72] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
73] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
74] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
75] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
76] 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
77] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
78] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
79] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
80] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
81] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
82] 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.
83] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
84] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
85] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
86] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
87] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
88] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
89] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
90] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
91] 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
92] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
93] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
94] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
95] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
96] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
97] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
98] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
99] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
100] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
101] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
102] 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
103] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
104] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
105] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
106] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
107] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
108] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
109] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
110] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
111] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
112] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
113] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
114] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
115] 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)
116] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
117] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
118] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
119] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
120] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
121] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
122] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
123] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
124] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
125] 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.
126] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
127] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
128] 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.
129] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
130] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
131] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
132] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
133] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
134] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
135] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
136] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
137] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
138] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
139] 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.
140] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
141] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
142] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
143] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
145] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
146] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
147] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
148] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
149] 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.
150] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
151] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
152] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
153] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
154] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
155] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
156] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
157] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
158] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
159] 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.
160] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
161] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
162] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
163] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
164] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
165] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
166] 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).
167] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
168] 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.
169] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
170] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
171] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
172] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
173] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
174] 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
175] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
176] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
177] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
178] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
179] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
180] 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.
181] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
182] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
183] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
184] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
185] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
186] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
187] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
188] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
189] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
190] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
191] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
192] Commonsense is not so common.
193] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
194] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
195] 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
196] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
197] 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.
198] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
199] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
200] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
201] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
202] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
203] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
204] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
205] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
206] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
207] 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.
208] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
209] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
210] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
211] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
212] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
213] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
214] Commonsense is not so common.
215] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
216] 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.
217] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
218] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
219] 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.
220] 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
221] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
222] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
223] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
224] 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
225] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
226] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
227] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
228] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
229] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
230] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
231] 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)
232] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
233] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
234] 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
235] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
236] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
237] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
238] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
239] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
240] 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.
241] 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.
242] 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
243] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
244] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
245] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
246] 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)
247] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
248] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
249] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
250] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
251] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
252] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
253] 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
254] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
255] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
256] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
257] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
258] 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
259] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
260] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
261] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
262] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
263] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
264] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
265] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
266] 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)
267] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
268] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
269] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
270] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
271] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
272] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
273] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
274] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
275] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
276] 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)
277] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
278] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
279] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
280] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
281] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
282] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
283] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
284] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
285] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
286] 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
287] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
288] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
289] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
290] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
291] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
292] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
293] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
294] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
295] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
296] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
297] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
298] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
299] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
300] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
301] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
302] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
303] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
304] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
305] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
306] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
307] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
308] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
309] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
310] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
311] 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)
312] 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.
313] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
314] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
315] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
316] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
317] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
318] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
319] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
320] 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.”
321] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
322] 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.
323] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
324] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
325] 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
326] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
327] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
328] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
329] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
330] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
331] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
332] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
333] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
334] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
335] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
336] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
337] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
338] 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.
339] 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.
340] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
341] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
342] 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).
343] 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)
344] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
345] 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
346] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
347] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
348] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
349] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
350] 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]
351] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
352] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
353] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
354] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
355] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] 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.
357] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
358] 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)
359] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
360] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
361] 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.
362] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
363] 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
364] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
365] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
366] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
367] 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.
368] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
369] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
370] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
371] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
372] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
373] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
374] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
375] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
376] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
377] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
378] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
379] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
380] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
381] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
382] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
383] 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.
384] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
385] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
386] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
387] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
388] 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.
389] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
390] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
391] 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.
392] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
393] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
394] 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.
395] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
396] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
397] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
398] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
399] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
400] 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.
401] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
402] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
403] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
404] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
405] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
406] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
407] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
408] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
409] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
410] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
411] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
412] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
413] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
414] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
415] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
416] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
417] 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.
418] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
419] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
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 nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
422] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
423] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
424] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
425] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
426] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
427] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
428] 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
429] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
430] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
431] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
432] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
433] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
434] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
435] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
436] 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
437] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
438] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
439] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
440] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
441] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
442] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
443] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
444] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
445] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
446] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
447] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
448] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
449] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
450] 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
451] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
452] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
453] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
454] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
455] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
456] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
457] 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
458] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
459] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
460] 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.
461] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
462] 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
463] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
464] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
465] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
466] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
467] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
468] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
469] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
470] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
471] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
472] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
473] 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
474] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
475] 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
476] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
477] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
478] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
479] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
480] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
481] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
482] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
483] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
484] 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.
485] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
486] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
487] 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
488] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
489] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
490] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
491] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
492] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
493] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
494] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
495] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
496] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
497] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
498] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
499] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
500] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
501] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
502] 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)
503] 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
504] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
505] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
506] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
507] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
508] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
509] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
510] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
511] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
512] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
513] 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
514] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
515] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
516] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
517] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
518] 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
519] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
520] 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.
521] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
522] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
523] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
524] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
525] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
526] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
527] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
528] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
529] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
530] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
531] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
532] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
533] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
534] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
535] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
536] 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)
537] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
538] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
539] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
540] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
541] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
542] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
543] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
544] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
545] 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
546] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
547] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
548] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
549] 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.
550] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
551] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
552] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
553] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
554] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
555] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
556] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
557] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
558] 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.
559] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
560] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
561] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
562] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
563] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
564] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
565] 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
566] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
567] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
568] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
569] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
570] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
571] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
572] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
573] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
574] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
575] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
576] 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
577] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
578] 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)
579] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
580] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
581] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
582] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
583] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
584] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
585] 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.
586] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
587] 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.
588] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
589] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
590] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
591] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
592] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
593] 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.
594] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
595] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
596] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
597] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
598] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
599] 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.
600] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski