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1] 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
2] 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
3] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
4] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
5] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
6] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
7] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
8] 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.
9] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
10] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
11] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
12] 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.
13] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
14] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
15] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
16] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
17] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
18] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
19] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
20] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
21] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22] 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)
23] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
24] 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
25] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
26] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
27] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
28] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
29] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
30] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
31] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
32] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
33] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
34] 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
35] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
36] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
37] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
38] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
39] 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
40] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
41] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
42] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
43] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
44] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
45] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
46] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
47] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
48] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
49] 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)
50] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
51] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
52] 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)
53] 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.
54] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
55] 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.
56] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
57] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
58] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
59] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
60] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
61] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
62] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
63] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
64] 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
65] 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
66] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
67] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
68] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
69] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
70] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
71] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
72] 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.
73] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
74] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
75] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
76] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
77] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
78] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
79] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
80] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
81] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
82] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
83] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
84] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
85] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
86] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
87] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
88] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
89] 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
90] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
91] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
92] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
93] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
94] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
95] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
96] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
97] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
98] 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
99] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
100] 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).
101] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
102] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
103] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
104] 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.
105] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
106] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
107] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
108] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
109] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
110] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
111] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
112] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
113] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
114] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
115] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
117] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
118] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
119] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
120] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
121] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
122] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
123] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
124] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
125] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
126] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
127] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
128] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
129] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
130] 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.
131] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
132] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
133] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
134] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
135] 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
136] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
137] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
138] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
139] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
140] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
141] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
142] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
143] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
144] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
145] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
146] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
147] 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.
148] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
149] 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.
150] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
151] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
152] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
153] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
154] 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)
155] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
156] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
157] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
158] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
159] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
160] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
161] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
162] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
163] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
164] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
165] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
166] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
167] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
168] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
169] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
170] 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
171] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
172] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
173] 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.
174] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
175] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
176] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
177] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
178] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
179] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
180] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
181] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
182] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
183] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
184] 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.
185] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
186] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
187] 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
188] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
189] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
190] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
191] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
192] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
193] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
194] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
195] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
196] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
197] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
198] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
199] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
200] 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.
201] 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.
202] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
203] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
204] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
205] 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.
206] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
207] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
208] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
209] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
210] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
212] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
213] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
214] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
215] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
216] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
217] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
218] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
219] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
220] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
221] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
222] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
223] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
224] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
225] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
226] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
227] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
228] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
229] 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)
230] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
231] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
232] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
233] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
234] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
235] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
236] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
237] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
238] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
239] 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.
240] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
241] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
242] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
243] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
244] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
245] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
246] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
247] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
248] 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.
249] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
250] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
251] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
252] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
253] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
254] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
255] 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.
256] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
257] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
258] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
259] Commonsense is not so common.
260] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
261] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
262] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
263] 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)
264] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
265] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
266] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
267] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
268] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
269] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
270] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
271] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
272] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
273] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
274] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
275] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
276] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
277] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
278] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
279] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
280] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
281] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
282] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
283] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
284] 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
285] 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)
286] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
287] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
288] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
289] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
290] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
291] 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.
292] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
293] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
294] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
295] 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
296] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
297] 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.
298] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
299] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
300] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
301] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
302] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
303] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
304] 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.
305] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
306] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
307] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
308] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
309] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
310] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
311] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
312] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
313] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
314] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
315] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
316] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
317] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
318] 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.
319] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
320] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
321] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
322] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
323] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
324] 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)
325] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
326] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
327] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
328] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
329] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
330] 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.
331] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
332] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
333] 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.
334] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
335] 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
336] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
337] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
338] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
339] 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.
340] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
341] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
342] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
343] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
344] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
345] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
346] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
347] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
348] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
349] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
350] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
351] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
352] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
353] 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)
354] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
355] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
356] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
357] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
358] 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)
359] 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
360] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
361] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
362] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
363] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
364] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
365] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
366] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
367] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
368] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
369] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
370] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
371] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
372] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
373] 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
374] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
375] 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.
376] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
377] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
378] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
379] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
380] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
381] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
382] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
383] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
384] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
385] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
386] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
387] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
388] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
389] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
390] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
391] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
392] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
393] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
394] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
395] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
397] 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
398] 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)
399] 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.
400] 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.
401] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
402] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
403] 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.
404] 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.
405] 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)
406] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
407] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
408] 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.
409] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
410] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
411] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
412] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
413] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
414] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
415] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
416] 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
417] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
418] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
419] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
420] 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
421] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
422] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
423] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
424] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
425] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
426] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
427] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
428] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
429] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
430] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
431] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
432] 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
433] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
434] 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.
435] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
436] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
437] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
438] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
439] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
440] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
441] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
442] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
443] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
444] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
445] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
446] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
447] 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)
448] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
449] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
450] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
451] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
452] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
453] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
454] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
455] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
456] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
457] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
458] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
459] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
460] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
461] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
462] 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
463] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
464] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
465] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
466] 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.
467] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
468] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
469] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
470] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
471] 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
472] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
473] 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.
474] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
475] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
476] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
477] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
478] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
479] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
480] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
481] 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
482] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
483] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
484] 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
485] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
486] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
487] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
488] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
489] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
490] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
491] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
492] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
493] 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)
494] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
495] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
496] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
497] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
498] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
499] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
500] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
501] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
502] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
503] 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.
504] 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.
505] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
506] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
507] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
508] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
509] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
510] 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.
511] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
512] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
513] 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.
514] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
515] 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).
516] 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.
517] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
518] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
519] 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.
520] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
521] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
522] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
523] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
524] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
525] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
526] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
527] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
528] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
529] 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.
530] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
531] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
532] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
533] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
534] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
535] 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.
536] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
537] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
538] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
539] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
540] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
541] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
542] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
543] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
544] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
545] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
546] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
547] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
548] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
549] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
550] 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.
551] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
552] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
553] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
554] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
555] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
556] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
557] 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.
558] 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.
559] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
560] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
561] 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.
562] 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
563] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
564] 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.
565] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
566] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
567] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
568] 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
569] 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.
570] 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.
571] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
572] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
573] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
574] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
575] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
576] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
577] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
578] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
579] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
580] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
581] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
582] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
583] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
584] 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.
585] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
586] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
587] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
588] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
589] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
590] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
591] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
592] 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
593] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
594] 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
595] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
596] 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
597] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
598] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
599] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
600] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy