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1] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
2] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
3] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
4] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
5] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
7] 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
8] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
9] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
10] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
11] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
12] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
13] 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)
14] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
15] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
16] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
17] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
18] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
19] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
20] 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.
21] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
22] 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.
23] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
24] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
25] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
26] 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.
27] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
28] 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.
29] 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).
30] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
31] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
32] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
33] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
34] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
35] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
36] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
37] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
38] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
39] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
40] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
41] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
42] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
43] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
44] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
45] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
46] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
47] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
48] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
49] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
50] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
51] 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.
52] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
53] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
54] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
55] 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
56] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
57] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
58] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
59] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
60] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
61] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
62] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
63] 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.
64] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
65] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
66] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
67] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
68] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
69] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
70] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
71] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
72] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
73] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
74] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
75] 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
76] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
77] 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
78] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
79] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
80] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
81] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
82] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
83] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
84] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
85] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
86] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
87] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
88] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
89] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
90] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
91] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
92] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
93] 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)
94] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
95] 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)
96] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
97] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
98] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
99] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
100] 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.
101] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
102] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
103] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
104] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
105] 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.
106] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
107] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
108] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
109] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
110] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
111] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
112] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
113] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
114] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
115] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
116] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
117] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
118] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
119] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
120] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
121] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
122] 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
123] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
124] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
125] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
126] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
127] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
128] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
129] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
130] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
131] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
132] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
133] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
134] 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.
135] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
136] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
137] 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)
138] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
139] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
140] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
141] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
142] 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.
143] 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
144] 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
145] 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.
146] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
147] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
148] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
149] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
150] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
151] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
152] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
153] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
154] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
155] 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.
156] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
157] 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
158] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
159] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
160] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
161] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
162] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
163] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
164] 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.
165] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
166] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
167] 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.
168] 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.
169] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
170] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
171] Commonsense is not so common.
172] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
173] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
174] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
175] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
176] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
177] 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.
178] 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)
179] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
180] 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.
181] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
182] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
183] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
184] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
185] 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.
186] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
187] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
188] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
189] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
190] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
191] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
192] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
193] 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)
194] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
195] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
196] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
197] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
198] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
199] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
200] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
201] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
202] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
203] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
204] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
205] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
206] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
207] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
208] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
209] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
210] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
211] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
212] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
213] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
214] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
215] 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.
216] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
217] 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)
218] 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.
219] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
220] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
221] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
223] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
224] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
225] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
226] 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
227] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
228] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
229] 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 Thorean
230] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
231] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
232] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
233] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
234] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
235] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
236] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
237] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
238] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
239] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
240] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
241] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
242] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
243] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
244] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
245] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
246] 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
247] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
248] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
249] 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.
250] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
251] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
252] 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)
253] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
254] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
255] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
256] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
257] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
258] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
259] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
260] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
261] 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)
262] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
263] 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
264] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
265] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
266] 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.
267] 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
268] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
269] 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.
270] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
271] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
272] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
273] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
274] 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
275] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
276] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
277] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
278] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
279] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
280] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
281] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
282] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
283] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
284] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
285] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
286] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
287] 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.
288] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
289] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
290] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
291] 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.
292] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
293] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
294] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
295] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
296] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
297] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
298] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
299] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
300] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
301] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
302] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
303] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
304] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
305] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
306] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
307] 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)
308] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
309] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
310] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
311] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
312] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
313] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
314] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
315] 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.
316] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
317] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
318] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
319] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
320] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
321] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
322] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
323] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
324] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
325] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
326] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
327] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
328] 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.
329] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
330] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
331] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
332] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
333] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
334] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
335] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
336] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
337] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
338] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
339] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
340] 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.
341] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
342] 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.
343] 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.
344] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
345] 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
346] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
347] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
348] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
349] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
350] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
351] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
352] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
353] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
354] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
355] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
356] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
357] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
358] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
359] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
360] 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
361] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
362] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
363] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
364] 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.
365] 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.
366] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
367] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
368] 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.
369] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
370] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
371] 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
372] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
373] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
374] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
375] 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.
376] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
377] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
378] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
379] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
380] 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
381] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
382] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
383] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
384] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
385] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
386] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
387] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
388] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
389] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
390] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
391] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
392] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
393] 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
394] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
395] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
396] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
397] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
398] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
399] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
400] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
401] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
402] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
403] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
404] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
405] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
406] 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
407] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
408] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
409] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
410] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
411] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
412] 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.
413] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
414] 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.
415] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
416] 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
417] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
418] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
419] 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).
420] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
421] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
422] 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.
423] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
424] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
425] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
426] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
427] 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.
428] 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)
429] 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).
430] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
431] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
432] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
433] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
434] 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
435] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
436] 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.
437] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
438] 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
439] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
440] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
441] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
442] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
443] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
444] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
445] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
446] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
447] 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.
448] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
449] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
450] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
451] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
452] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
453] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
454] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
455] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
456] 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
457] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
458] 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.
459] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
460] 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.
461] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
462] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
463] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
464] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
465] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
466] 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
467] 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.
468] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
469] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
470] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
471] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
472] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
473] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
474] 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.
475] 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.
476] 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.
477] 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
478] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
479] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
480] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
481] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
482] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
483] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
484] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
485] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
486] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
487] 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)
488] 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
489] 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.
490] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
491] 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.
492] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
493] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
494] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
495] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
496] 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.
497] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
498] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
499] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
500] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
501] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
502] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
503] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
504] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
505] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
506] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
507] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
508] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
509] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
510] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
511] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
512] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
513] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
514] 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
515] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
516] 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
517] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
518] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
519] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
520] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
521] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
522] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
523] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
524] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
525] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
526] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
527] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
528] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
529] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
530] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
531] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
532] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
533] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
534] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
535] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
536] 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.
537] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
538] 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.
539] 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.
540] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
541] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
542] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
543] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
544] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
545] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
546] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
547] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
548] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
549] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
550] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
551] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
552] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
553] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
554] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
555] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
556] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
557] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
558] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
559] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
560] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
561] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
562] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
563] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
564] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
565] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
566] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
567] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
568] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
569] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
570] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
571] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
572] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
573] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
574] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
575] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
576] 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.
577] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
578] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
579] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
580] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
581] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
582] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
583] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
584] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
585] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
586] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
587] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
588] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
589] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
590] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
591] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
592] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
593] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
594] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
595] 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.
596] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
597] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
598] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
599] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
600] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.