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1] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
2] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
3] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
4] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
5] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
6] 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.
7] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
8] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
9] 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)
10] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
11] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
12] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
13] 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)
14] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
15] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
16] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
17] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
18] 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
19] 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.
20] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
21] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
22] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
23] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
24] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
25] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
26] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
27] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
28] 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.
29] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
30] 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)
31] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
32] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
33] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
34] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
35] 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
36] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
37] 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.
38] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
39] 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)
40] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
41] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
42] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
43] 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)
44] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
45] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
46] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
47] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
48] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
49] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
50] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
51] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
52] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
53] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
54] 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.
55] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
56] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
57] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
58] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
59] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
60] 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
61] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
62] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
63] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
64] 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.
65] 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.
66] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
67] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
68] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
69] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
70] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
71] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
72] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
73] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
74] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
75] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
76] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
77] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
78] 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.
79] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
80] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
81] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
82] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
83] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
84] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
85] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
86] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
87] 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)
88] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
89] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
90] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
91] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
92] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
93] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
94] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
95] 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.
96] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
97] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
98] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
99] 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
100] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
101] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
102] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
103] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
104] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
105] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
106] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
107] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
108] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
109] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
110] 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
111] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
112] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
113] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
114] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
115] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
116] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
117] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
118] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
119] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
120] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
121] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
122] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
123] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
124] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
125] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
126] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
127] 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
128] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
129] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
130] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
131] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
132] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
133] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
134] 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
135] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
136] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
137] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
138] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
139] 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.
140] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
141] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
142] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
143] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
144] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
145] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
146] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
147] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
148] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
149] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
150] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
151] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] 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).
153] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
154] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
155] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
156] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
157] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
158] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
159] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
160] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
161] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
162] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
163] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
164] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
165] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
166] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
167] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
168] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
169] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
170] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
171] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
172] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
173] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
174] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
175] 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
176] 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.
177] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
178] 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
179] 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)
180] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
181] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
182] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
183] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
184] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
185] 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
186] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
187] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
188] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
189] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
190] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
191] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
192] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
193] 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.
194] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
195] 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
196] 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
197] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
198] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
199] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
200] 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.
201] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
202] 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
203] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
204] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
205] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
206] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
207] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
208] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
209] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
210] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
211] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
212] 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)
213] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
214] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
215] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
216] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
217] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
218] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
219] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
220] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
221] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
222] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
223] 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
224] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
225] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
226] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
227] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
228] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
229] 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
230] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
231] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
232] 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.
233] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
234] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
235] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
236] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
237] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
238] 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.
239] 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.
240] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
241] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
242] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
243] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
244] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
245] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
246] 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
247] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
248] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
249] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
250] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
251] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
252] 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.
253] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
254] 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
255] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
256] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
257] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
258] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
259] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
260] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
261] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
262] 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.
263] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
264] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
265] 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.
266] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
267] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
268] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
269] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
270] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
271] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
272] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
273] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
274] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
275] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
276] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
277] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
278] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
279] 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
280] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
281] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
282] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
283] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
284] 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
285] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
286] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
287] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
288] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
289] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
290] 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.
291] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
292] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
293] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
294] 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
295] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
296] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
297] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
298] 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
299] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
300] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
301] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
302] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
303] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
304] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
305] 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
306] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
307] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
308] 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]
309] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
310] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
311] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
312] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
313] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
314] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
315] 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)
316] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
317] 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
318] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
319] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
320] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
321] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
322] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
323] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
324] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
325] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
326] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
327] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
328] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
329] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
330] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
331] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
332] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
333] 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.
334] Commonsense is not so common.
335] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
336] 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
337] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
338] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
339] 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.
340] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
341] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
342] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
343] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
344] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
345] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
346] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
347] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
348] 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.
349] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
350] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
351] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
352] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
353] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
354] 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.
355] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
356] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
357] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
358] 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
359] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
360] 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.
361] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
362] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
363] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
364] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
365] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
366] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
367] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
368] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
369] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
370] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
371] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
372] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
373] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
374] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
375] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
376] 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
377] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
378] 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)
379] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
380] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
381] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
382] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
383] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
384] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
385] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
386] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
387] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
388] 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)
389] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
390] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
391] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
392] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
393] 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)
394] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
395] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
396] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
397] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
398] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
399] 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.
400] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
401] 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
402] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
403] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
404] 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
405] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
406] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
407] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
408] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
409] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
410] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
411] 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).
412] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
413] 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
414] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
415] 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.
416] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
417] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
418] 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
419] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
420] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
421] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
422] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
423] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
424] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
425] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
426] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
427] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
428] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
429] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
430] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
431] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
432] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
433] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
434] 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
435] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
436] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
437] 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
438] 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.
439] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
440] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
441] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
442] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
443] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
444] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
445] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
446] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
447] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
448] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
449] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
450] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
451] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
452] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
453] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
454] 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 .
455] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
456] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
457] 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
458] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
459] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
460] 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.
461] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
462] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
463] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
465] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
466] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
467] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
468] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
469] 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.
470] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
471] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
472] 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
473] 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)
474] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
475] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
476] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
477] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
478] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
479] 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
480] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
481] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
482] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
483] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
484] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
485] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
486] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
487] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
488] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
489] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
490] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
491] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
492] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
493] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
494] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
495] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
496] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
497] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
498] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
499] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
500] 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
501] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
502] 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
503] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
504] 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]
505] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
506] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
507] 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.
508] 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
509] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
510] 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
511] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
512] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
513] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
514] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
515] 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.
516] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
517] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
518] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
519] 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 .
520] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
521] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
522] Commonsense is not so common.
523] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
524] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
525] 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.
526] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
527] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
528] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
529] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
530] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
531] 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.
532] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
533] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
534] 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
535] 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
536] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
537] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
538] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
539] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
540] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
541] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
542] 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.
543] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
544] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
545] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
546] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
547] 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)
548] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
549] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
550] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
551] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
552] 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
553] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
554] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
555] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
556] 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
557] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
558] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
559] 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
560] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
561] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
562] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
563] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
564] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
565] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
566] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
567] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
568] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
569] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
570] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
571] 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.
572] 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.
573] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
574] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
575] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
576] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
577] 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
578] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
579] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
580] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
581] 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.
582] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
583] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
584] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
585] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
586] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
587] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
588] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
589] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
590] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
591] 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)
592] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
593] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
594] 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
595] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
596] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
597] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
598] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
599] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
600] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.