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1] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
2] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
3] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
4] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
5] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
6] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
7] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
8] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
9] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
10] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
11] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
12] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
13] 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.
14] 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.
15] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
16] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
17] 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
18] 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.
19] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
20] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
21] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
22] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
23] 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.
24] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
25] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
26] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
27] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
28] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
29] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
30] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
31] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
32] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
33] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
34] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
35] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
36] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
37] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
38] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
39] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
40] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
41] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
42] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
43] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
44] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
45] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
46] 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.
47] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
48] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
49] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
50] 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
51] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
52] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
53] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
54] 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
55] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
56] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
57] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
58] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
59] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
60] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
61] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
62] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
63] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
64] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
65] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
66] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
67] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
68] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
69] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
70] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
71] 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.
72] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
73] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
74] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
75] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
76] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
77] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
78] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
79] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
80] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
81] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
82] 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.
83] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
84] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
85] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
86] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
87] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
88] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
89] 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
90] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
91] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
92] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
93] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
94] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
95] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
96] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
97] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
98] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
99] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
100] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
101] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
102] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
103] 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
104] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
105] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
106] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
107] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
108] 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
109] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
110] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
111] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
112] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
113] 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.
114] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
115] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
116] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
117] 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.
118] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
119] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
120] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
121] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
122] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
123] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
124] 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.
125] 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.
126] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
127] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
128] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
129] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
130] 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.
131] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
132] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
133] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
134] 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
135] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
136] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
137] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
138] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
139] 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.
140] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
141] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
142] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
143] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
144] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
145] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
146] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
147] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
148] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
149] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
150] 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
151] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
152] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
153] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
154] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
155] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
156] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
157] 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
158] 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.
159] 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.
160] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
161] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
162] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
163] 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
164] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
165] 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)
166] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
167] 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
168] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
169] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
170] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
171] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
172] 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)
173] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
174] 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
175] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
176] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
177] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
178] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
179] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
180] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
181] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
182] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
183] 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
184] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
185] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
186] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
187] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
188] 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.
189] 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
190] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
191] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
192] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
193] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
194] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
195] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
196] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
197] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
198] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
199] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
200] 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
201] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
202] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
203] 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)
204] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
205] 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)
206] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
207] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
208] 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
209] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
210] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
211] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
212] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
213] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
214] 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.
215] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
216] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
217] 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.
218] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
219] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
220] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
221] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
222] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
223] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
224] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
225] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
226] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
227] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
228] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
229] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
230] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
231] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
232] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
233] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
234] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
235] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
236] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
237] 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
238] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
239] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
240] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
241] 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
242] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
243] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
244] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
245] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
246] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
247] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
248] 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
249] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
250] 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)
251] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
252] 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)
253] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
254] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
255] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
256] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
257] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
258] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
259] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
260] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
261] 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.
262] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
263] 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.
264] 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)
265] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
266] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
267] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
268] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
269] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
270] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
271] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
272] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
273] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
274] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
275] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
276] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
277] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
278] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
279] 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
280] 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.
281] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
282] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
283] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
284] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
285] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
286] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
287] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
288] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
289] 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
290] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
291] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
292] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
293] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
294] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
295] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
296] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
297] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
298] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
299] 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
300] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
301] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
302] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
303] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
304] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
305] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
306] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
307] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
308] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
309] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
310] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
311] 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]
312] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
313] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
314] 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
315] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
316] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
317] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
318] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
319] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
320] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
321] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
322] 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
323] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
324] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
325] 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
326] 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.
327] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
328] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
329] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
330] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
331] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
332] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
333] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
334] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
335] 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
336] 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)
337] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
338] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
339] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
340] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
341] 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.
342] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
343] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
344] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
345] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
346] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
347] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
348] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
349] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
350] 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
351] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
352] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
353] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
354] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
355] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
356] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
357] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
358] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
359] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
360] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
361] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
362] 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.
363] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
364] 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)
365] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
366] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
367] 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
368] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
369] 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
370] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
371] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
372] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
373] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
374] 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)
375] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
376] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
377] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
378] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
379] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
380] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
381] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
382] 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.
383] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
384] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
385] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
386] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
387] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
388] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
389] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
390] 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
391] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
392] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
393] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
394] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
395] 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
396] 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).
397] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
398] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
399] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
400] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
401] 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
402] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
403] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
404] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
405] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
406] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
407] 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.
408] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
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] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
411] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
412] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
413] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
414] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
415] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
416] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
417] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
418] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
419] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
420] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
421] 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.
422] 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
423] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
424] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
425] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
426] 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.
427] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
428] 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.
429] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
430] 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.
431] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
432] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
433] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
434] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
435] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
436] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
437] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
438] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
439] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
440] 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)
441] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
442] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
443] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
444] 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.
445] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
446] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
447] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
448] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
449] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
450] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
451] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
452] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
453] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
454] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
455] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
456] 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
457] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
458] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
459] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
460] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
461] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
462] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
463] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
464] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
465] 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).
466] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
467] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
468] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
469] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
470] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
471] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
472] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
473] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
474] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
475] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
476] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
477] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
478] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
479] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
480] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
481] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
482] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
483] 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.
484] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
485] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
486] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
487] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
488] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
489] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
490] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
491] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
492] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
493] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
494] 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
495] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
496] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
497] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
498] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
499] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
500] 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.
501] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
502] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
503] 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.
504] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
505] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
506] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
507] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
508] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
509] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
510] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
511] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
512] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
513] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
514] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
515] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
516] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
517] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
518] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
519] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
520] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
521] 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
522] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
523] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
524] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
525] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
526] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
527] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
528] 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.
529] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
530] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
531] 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
532] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
533] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
534] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
535] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
536] 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.
537] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
538] 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.
539] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
540] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
541] 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)
542] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
543] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
544] 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
545] 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.
546] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
547] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
548] 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.
549] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
550] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
551] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
552] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
553] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
554] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
555] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
556] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
557] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
558] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
559] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
560] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
561] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
562] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
563] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
564] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
565] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
566] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
567] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
568] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
569] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
570] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
571] 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
572] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
573] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
574] 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.
575] 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.
576] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
577] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
578] 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.
579] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
580] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
581] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
582] 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
583] 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
584] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
585] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
586] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
587] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
588] 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.
589] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
590] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
591] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
592] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
593] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
594] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
595] 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.
596] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
597] 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.
598] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
599] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
600] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).