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1] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
2] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
3] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
4] 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.
5] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
6] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
7] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
8] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
9] 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.
10] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
11] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
12] 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.
13] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
14] 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.
15] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
16] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
17] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
18] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
19] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
20] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] 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
22] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
23] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
24] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
25] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
26] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
27] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
28] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
29] 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)
30] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
31] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
32] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
33] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
34] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
35] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
36] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
37] 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
38] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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39] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
40] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
41] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
42] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
43] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
44] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
45] 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.
46] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
47] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
48] 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.
49] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
50] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
51] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
52] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
53] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
54] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
55] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
56] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
57] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
58] 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
59] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
60] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
61] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
62] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
63] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
64] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
65] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
66] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
67] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
68] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
69] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
70] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
71] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
72] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
73] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
74] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
75] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
76] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
77] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
78] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
79] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
80] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
81] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
82] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
83] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
84] 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.
85] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
86] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
87] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
88] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
89] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
90] 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
91] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
92] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
93] 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)
94] 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.
95] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
96] 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)
97] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
98] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
99] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
100] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
101] 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.
102] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
103] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
104] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
105] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
106] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
107] 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]
108] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
109] 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
110] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
111] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
112] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
113] 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)
114] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
115] 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.
116] 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
117] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
118] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
119] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
120] 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)
121] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
122] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
123] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
124] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
125] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
126] 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.
127] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
128] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
129] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
130] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
131] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
132] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
133] 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.
134] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
135] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
136] 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.
137] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
138] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
139] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
140] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
141] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
142] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
143] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
144] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
145] 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 .
146] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
147] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
148] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
149] 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.
150] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
151] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
152] 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
153] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
154] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
155] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
156] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
157] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
158] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
159] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
160] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
161] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
162] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
163] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
164] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
165] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
166] 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
167] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
168] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
169] 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
170] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
171] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
172] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
173] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
174] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
175] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
176] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
177] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
178] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
179] 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.
180] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
181] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
182] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
183] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
184] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
185] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
186] 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
187] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
188] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
189] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
190] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
191] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
192] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
193] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
194] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
195] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
196] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
197] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
198] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
199] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
200] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
201] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
202] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
203] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
204] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
205] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
206] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
207] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
208] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
209] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
210] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
211] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
212] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
213] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
214] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
215] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
216] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
217] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
218] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
219] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
220] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
221] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
222] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
223] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
224] 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)
225] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
226] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
227] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
228] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
229] 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.
230] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
231] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
232] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
233] 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.
234] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
235] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
236] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
237] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
238] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
239] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
240] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
241] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
242] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
243] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
244] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
245] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
246] 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
247] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
248] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
249] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
250] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
251] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
252] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
253] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
254] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
255] 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).
256] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
257] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
258] 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
259] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
260] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
261] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
262] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
263] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
264] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
265] 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
266] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
267] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
268] 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).
269] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
270] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
271] 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
272] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
273] 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)
274] 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.
275] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
276] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
277] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
278] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
279] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
280] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
281] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
282] 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)
283] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
284] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
285] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
286] 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
287] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
288] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
289] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
290] 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
291] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
292] 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.
293] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
294] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
295] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
296] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
297] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
298] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
299] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
300] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
301] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
302] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
303] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
304] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
305] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
306] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
307] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
308] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
309] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
310] 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)
311] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
312] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
313] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
314] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
315] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
316] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
317] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
318] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
319] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
320] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
321] 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.
322] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
323] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
324] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
325] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
326] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
327] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
328] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
329] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
330] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
331] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
332] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
333] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
334] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
335] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
336] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
337] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
338] 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)
339] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
340] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
341] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
342] 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.
343] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
344] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
345] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
346] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
347] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
348] 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)
349] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
350] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
351] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
352] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
353] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
354] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
355] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
356] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
357] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
358] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
359] 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]
360] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
361] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
362] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
363] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
364] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
365] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
366] 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
367] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
368] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
369] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
370] 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.
371] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
372] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
373] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
374] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
375] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
376] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
377] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
378] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
379] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
380] 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.
381] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
382] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
383] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
384] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
385] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
386] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
387] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
388] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
389] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
390] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
391] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
392] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
393] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
394] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
395] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
396] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
397] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
398] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
399] 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.
400] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
401] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
402] 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
403] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
404] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
405] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
406] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
407] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
408] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
409] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
410] 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.
411] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
412] 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.
413] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
414] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
415] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
416] Commonsense is not so common.
417] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
418] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
419] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
420] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
421] 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)
422] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
423] 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
424] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
425] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
426] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
427] 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.
428] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
429] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
430] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
431] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
432] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
433] 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.
434] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
435] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
436] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
437] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
438] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
439] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
440] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
441] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
442] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
443] 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.
444] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
445] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
446] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
447] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
448] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
449] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
450] 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
451] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
452] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
453] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
454] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
455] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
456] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
457] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
458] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
459] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
460] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
461] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
462] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
463] 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.
464] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
465] 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
466] 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
467] 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
468] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
469] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
470] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
471] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
472] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
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] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
475] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
476] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
477] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
478] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
479] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
480] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
481] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
482] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
483] 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)
484] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
485] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
486] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
487] 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
488] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
489] 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
490] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
491] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
492] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
493] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
494] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
495] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
496] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
497] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
498] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
499] 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.
500] 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.
501] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
502] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
503] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
504] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
505] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
506] 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
507] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
508] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
509] 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
510] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
511] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
512] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
513] 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.
514] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
515] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
516] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
517] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
518] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
519] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
520] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
521] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
522] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
523] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
524] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
525] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
526] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
527] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
528] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
529] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
530] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
531] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
532] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
533] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
534] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
535] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
536] 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
537] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
538] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
539] 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
540] 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)
541] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
542] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
543] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
544] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
545] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
546] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
547] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
548] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
549] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
550] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
551] 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
552] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
553] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
554] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
555] 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
556] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
557] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
558] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
559] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
560] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
561] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
562] 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.
563] 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.
564] 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)
565] 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.
566] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
567] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
568] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
569] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
570] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
571] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
572] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
573] 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
574] 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
575] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
576] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
577] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
578] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
579] 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
580] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
581] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
582] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
583] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
584] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
585] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
586] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
587] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
588] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
589] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
590] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
591] 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
592] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
593] 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.
594] 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.
595] 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
596] 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.
597] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
598] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
599] 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.
600] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson