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1] 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.
2] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
3] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
4] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
5] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
6] 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.
7] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
8] 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 .
9] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
10] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
11] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
12] 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
13] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
15] 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.
16] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
17] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
18] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
19] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
20] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
21] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
22] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
23] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
24] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
25] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
26] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
27] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
28] 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.
29] 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
30] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
31] 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
32] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
33] 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.
34] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
35] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
36] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
37] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
38] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
39] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
40] 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
41] 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
42] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
43] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
44] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
45] 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.
46] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
47] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
48] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
49] 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.
50] 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
51] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
52] 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.
53] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
54] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
55] 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
56] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
57] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
58] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
59] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
60] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
61] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
62] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
63] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
65] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
66] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
67] 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
68] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
69] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
70] 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.
71] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
72] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
73] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
74] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
75] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
76] 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
77] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
78] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
79] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
80] 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.
81] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
82] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
83] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
84] 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)
85] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
86] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
87] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
88] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
89] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
90] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
91] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
92] 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
93] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
94] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
95] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
96] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
97] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
98] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
99] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
100] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
101] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
102] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
103] 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
104] 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.
105] 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.
106] 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
107] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
108] 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
109] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
110] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
111] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
112] 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.
113] 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)
114] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
115] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
116] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
117] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
118] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
119] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
120] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
121] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
122] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
123] 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
124] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
125] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
126] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
127] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
128] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
129] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
130] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
131] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
132] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
133] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
134] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
135] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
136] 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)
137] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
138] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
139] 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.
140] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
141] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
142] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
143] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
144] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
145] 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
146] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
147] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
148] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
149] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
150] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
151] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
152] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
153] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
154] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
155] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
156] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
157] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
158] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
159] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
160] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
161] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
162] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
163] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
164] 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)
165] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
166] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
167] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
168] 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
169] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
170] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
171] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
172] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
173] 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
174] 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.
175] 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.
176] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
177] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
178] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
179] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
180] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
181] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
182] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
183] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
184] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
185] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
186] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
187] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
188] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
189] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
190] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
191] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
192] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
193] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
194] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
195] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
196] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
197] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
198] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
199] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
200] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
201] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
202] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
203] 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)
204] 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.
205] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
206] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
207] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
208] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
209] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
210] 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.
211] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
212] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
213] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
214] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
215] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
216] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
217] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
218] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
219] 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)
220] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
221] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
222] 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
223] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
224] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
225] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
226] 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.
227] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
228] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
229] 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
230] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
231] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
232] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
233] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
234] 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)
235] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
236] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
237] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
238] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
239] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
240] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
241] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
242] 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.
243] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
244] 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.
245] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
246] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
247] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
248] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
249] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
250] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
251] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
252] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
253] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
254] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
255] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
256] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
257] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
258] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
259] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
260] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
261] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
262] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
263] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
264] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
265] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
266] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
267] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
268] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
269] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
270] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
271] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
272] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
273] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
274] 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
275] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
276] 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
277] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
278] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
279] 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.
280] 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
281] 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.
282] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
283] 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
284] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
285] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
286] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
287] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
288] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
289] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
290] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
291] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
292] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
293] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
294] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
295] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
296] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
297] 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
298] 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.
299] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
300] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
301] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
302] 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).
303] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
304] 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
305] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
306] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
307] 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.
308] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
309] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
311] 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.
312] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
313] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
314] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
315] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
316] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
317] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
318] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
319] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
320] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
321] 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.
322] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] 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.
324] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
325] 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
326] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
327] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
328] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
329] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
330] 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
331] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
332] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
333] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
334] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
335] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
336] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
337] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
338] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
339] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
340] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
341] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
342] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
343] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
344] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
345] 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.
346] 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.
347] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
348] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
349] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
350] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
351] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
352] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
353] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
354] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
355] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
356] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
357] 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.
358] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
359] 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)
360] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
361] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
362] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
363] 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)
364] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
365] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
366] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
367] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
368] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
369] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
370] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
371] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
372] 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.
373] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
374] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
375] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
376] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
377] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
378] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
379] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
380] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
381] 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
382] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
383] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
384] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
385] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
386] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
387] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
388] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
389] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
390] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
391] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
392] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
393] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
394] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
395] 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
396] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
397] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
398] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
399] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
400] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
401] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
402] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
403] 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)
404] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
405] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
406] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
407] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
408] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
409] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
410] 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.
411] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
412] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
413] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
414] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
415] 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
416] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
417] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
418] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
419] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
420] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
421] 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
422] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
423] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
424] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
425] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
426] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
427] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
428] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
429] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
430] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
431] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
432] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
433] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
434] 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
435] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
436] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
437] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
438] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
439] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
440] 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
441] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
442] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
443] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
444] 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
445] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
446] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
447] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
448] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
449] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
450] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
451] 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
452] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
453] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
454] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
455] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
456] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
457] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
458] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
459] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
460] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
461] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
462] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
463] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
464] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
465] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
466] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
467] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
468] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
469] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
470] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
471] 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)
472] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
473] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
474] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
475] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
476] 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
477] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
478] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
479] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
480] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
481] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
482] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
483] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
484] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
485] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
486] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
487] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
488] 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]
489] 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
490] 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.
491] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
492] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
493] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
494] 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)
495] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
496] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
497] 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
498] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
499] 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.
500] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
501] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
502] 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.
503] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
504] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
505] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
506] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
507] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
508] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
509] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
510] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
511] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
512] 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
513] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
514] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
515] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
516] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
517] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
518] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
519] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
520] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
521] 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)
522] 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.
523] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
524] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
525] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
526] 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.
527] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
528] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
529] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
530] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
531] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
532] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
533] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
534] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
535] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
536] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] 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
538] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
539] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
540] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
541] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
542] 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
543] 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.
544] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
545] 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.
546] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
547] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
548] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
549] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
550] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
551] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
552] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
553] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
554] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
555] 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
556] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
557] 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
558] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
559] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
560] 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
561] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
562] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
563] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
564] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
565] 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
566] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
567] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
568] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
569] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
570] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
571] 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.
572] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
573] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
574] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
575] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
576] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
577] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
578] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
579] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
580] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
581] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
582] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
583] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
584] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
585] 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)
586] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
587] 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.
588] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
589] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
590] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
591] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
592] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
593] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
594] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
595] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
596] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
597] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
598] 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
599] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
600] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.