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1] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
2] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
3] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
4] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
5] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
6] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
7] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
8] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
9] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
10] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
11] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
12] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
13] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
14] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
15] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
16] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
17] 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.
18] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
19] 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.
20] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
21] 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
22] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
23] 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.
24] 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
25] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
26] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
27] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
28] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
29] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
30] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
31] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
32] 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
33] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
34] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
35] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
36] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
37] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
38] 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.
39] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
40] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
41] 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.
42] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
43] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
44] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
45] 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
46] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
47] 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)
48] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
49] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
50] 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
51] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
52] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
53] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
54] 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)
55] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
56] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
57] 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.
58] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
59] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
60] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
61] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
62] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
63] 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
64] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
65] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
66] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
67] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
68] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
69] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
70] 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.
71] 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
72] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
73] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
74] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
75] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
76] 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.
77] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
78] 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)
79] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
80] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
81] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
82] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
83] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
84] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
85] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
86] 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.
87] 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.
88] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
89] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
90] 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.
91] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
92] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
93] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
94] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
95] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
96] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
97] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
98] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
99] 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
100] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
101] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
102] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
103] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
104] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
105] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
106] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
107] 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.
108] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
109] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
110] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
111] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
112] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
113] 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
114] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
115] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
116] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
117] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
118] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
119] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
120] 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
121] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
122] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
123] 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)
124] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
125] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
126] 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
127] 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.
128] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
129] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
130] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
131] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
132] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
133] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
134] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
135] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
136] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
137] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
138] 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
139] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
140] 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)
141] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
142] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
143] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
144] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
145] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
146] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
147] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
148] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
149] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
150] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
151] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
152] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
153] 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.
154] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
155] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
156] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
157] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
158] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
159] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
160] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
161] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
162] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
163] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
164] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
165] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
166] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
167] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
168] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
169] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
170] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
171] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
172] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
173] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
174] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
175] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
176] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
177] 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
178] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
179] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
180] 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
181] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
182] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
183] 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
184] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
185] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
186] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
187] 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
188] 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.
189] 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
190] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
191] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
192] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
193] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
194] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
195] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
196] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
197] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
198] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
199] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
200] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
201] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
202] 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.
203] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
204] 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.
205] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
206] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
207] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
208] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
209] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
210] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
211] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
212] 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
213] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
214] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
215] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
216] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
217] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
218] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
219] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
220] 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.
221] 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
222] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
223] 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)
224] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
225] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
226] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
227] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
228] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
229] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
230] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
231] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
232] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
233] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
234] 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.
235] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
236] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
237] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
238] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
239] 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.
240] 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).
241] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
242] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
243] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
244] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
245] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
246] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
247] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
248] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
249] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
250] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
251] 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.
252] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
253] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
254] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
255] 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)
256] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
257] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
258] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
259] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
260] 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.
261] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
262] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
263] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
264] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
265] 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
266] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
267] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
268] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
269] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
270] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
271] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
272] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
273] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
274] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
275] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
276] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
277] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
278] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
279] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
280] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
281] 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)
282] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
283] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
284] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
285] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
286] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
287] 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.
288] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
289] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
290] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
291] 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).
292] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
293] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
294] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
295] 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.
296] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
297] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
298] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
299] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
300] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
301] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
302] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
303] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
304] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
305] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
306] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
307] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
308] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
309] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
310] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
311] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
312] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
313] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
314] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
315] 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.
316] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
317] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
318] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
319] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
320] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
321] 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)
322] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
323] 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.
324] 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
325] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
326] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
327] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
328] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
329] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
330] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
331] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
332] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
333] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
334] 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.
335] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
336] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
337] 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.
338] 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.
339] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
340] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
341] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
342] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
343] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
344] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
345] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
346] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
347] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
348] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
349] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
350] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
351] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
352] 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
353] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
354] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
355] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
356] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
357] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
358] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
359] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
360] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
361] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
362] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
363] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
364] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
365] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
366] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
367] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
368] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
369] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
370] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
371] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
372] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
373] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
374] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
376] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
377] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
378] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
379] 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
380] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
381] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
382] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
383] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
384] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
385] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
386] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
387] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
388] 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)
389] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
390] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
391] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
392] 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
393] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
394] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
395] 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.
396] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
397] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
398] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
399] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
400] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
401] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
402] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
403] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
404] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
405] 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.
406] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
407] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
408] 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)
409] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
410] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
411] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
412] 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.
413] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
414] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
415] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
416] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
417] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
418] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
419] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
420] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
421] 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.
422] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
423] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
424] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
425] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
426] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
427] 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
428] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
429] 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.
430] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
431] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
432] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
433] 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)
434] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
435] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
436] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
437] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
438] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
439] 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
440] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
441] 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.
442] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
443] 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.
444] 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.
445] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
446] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
447] 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.
448] 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
449] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
450] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
451] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
452] 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
453] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
454] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
455] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
456] 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
457] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
458] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
459] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
460] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
461] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
462] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
463] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
464] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
465] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
466] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
467] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
468] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
469] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
470] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
471] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
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] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
474] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
475] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
476] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
477] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
478] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
479] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
480] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
481] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
482] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
483] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
484] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
485] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
486] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
487] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
488] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] 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).
490] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
491] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
492] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
493] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
494] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
495] 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)
496] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
497] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
498] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
499] 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.
500] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
501] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
502] 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
503] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
504] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
505] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
506] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
507] 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
508] 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.
509] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
510] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
511] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
512] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
513] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
514] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
515] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
516] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
517] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
518] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
519] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
520] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
521] 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.
522] 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
523] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
524] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
525] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
526] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
527] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
528] 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
529] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
530] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
531] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
532] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
533] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
534] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
535] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
536] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
537] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
538] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
539] 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.
540] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
541] 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)
542] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
543] 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.
544] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
545] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
546] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
547] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
548] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
549] 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.
550] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
551] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
552] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
553] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
554] 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.
555] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
556] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
557] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
558] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
559] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
560] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
561] 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
562] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
563] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
564] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
565] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
566] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
567] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
568] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
569] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
570] 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.
571] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
572] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
573] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
574] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
575] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
576] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
577] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
578] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
579] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
580] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
581] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
582] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
583] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
584] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
585] 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
586] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
587] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
588] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
589] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
590] 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)
591] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
592] 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.
593] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
594] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
595] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
596] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
597] 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.
598] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
599] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
600] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo