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1] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
2] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
3] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
4] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
5] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
6] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
7] 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
8] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
9] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
10] 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
11] 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.
12] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
13] 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 .
14] 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
15] 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
16] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
17] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
18] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
19] 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.
20] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
21] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
22] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
23] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
24] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
25] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
26] 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.
27] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
28] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
29] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
30] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
31] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
32] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
33] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
34] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
35] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
36] 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.
37] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
38] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
39] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
40] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
41] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
42] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
43] 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.
44] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
45] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
46] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
47] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
48] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
49] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
50] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
51] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
52] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
53] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
54] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
55] 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.
56] 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
57] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
58] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
59] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
60] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
61] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
62] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
63] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
65] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
66] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
67] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
68] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
69] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
70] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
71] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
72] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
73] 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
74] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
75] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
76] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
77] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
78] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
79] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
80] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
81] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
82] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
83] 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.
84] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
85] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
86] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
87] 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
88] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
89] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
90] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
91] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
92] 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.
93] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
94] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
95] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
96] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
97] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
98] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
99] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
100] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
101] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
102] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
103] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
104] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
105] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
106] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
107] 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.
108] 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.
109] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
110] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
111] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
112] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
113] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
114] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
115] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
116] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
117] 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.
118] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
119] 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.
120] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
121] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
122] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
123] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
124] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
125] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
126] 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
127] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
128] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
129] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
130] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
131] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
132] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
133] 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
134] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
135] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
136] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
137] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
138] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
139] 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
140] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
141] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
142] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
143] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
144] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
145] 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)
146] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
147] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
148] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
149] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
150] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
151] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
152] 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
153] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
154] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
155] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
156] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
157] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
158] 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)
159] 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)
160] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
161] 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.
162] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
163] 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.
164] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
165] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
166] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
167] 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.
168] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
169] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
170] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
171] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
172] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
173] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
174] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
175] 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.
176] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
177] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
178] 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
179] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
180] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
181] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
182] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
183] 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.
184] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
185] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
186] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
187] 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
188] 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
189] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
190] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
191] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
192] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
193] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
194] 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
195] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
196] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
197] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
198] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
199] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
200] 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).
201] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
202] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
203] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
204] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
205] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
206] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
207] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
209] 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
210] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
211] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
212] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
213] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
214] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
215] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
216] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
217] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
218] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
219] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
220] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
221] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
222] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
223] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
224] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
225] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
226] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
227] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
228] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
229] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
230] 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.
231] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
232] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
233] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
234] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
235] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
236] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
237] 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.
238] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
239] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
240] 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)
241] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
242] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
243] 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
244] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
245] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
246] 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)
247] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
248] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
249] 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.
250] 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
251] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
252] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
253] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
254] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
255] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
256] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
257] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
258] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
259] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
260] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
261] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
262] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
263] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
264] 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
265] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
266] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
267] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
268] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
269] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
270] 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)
271] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
272] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
273] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
274] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
275] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
276] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
277] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
278] 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
279] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
280] 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.
281] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
282] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
283] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
284] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
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] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
287] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
288] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
289] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
290] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
291] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
292] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
293] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
294] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
295] 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
296] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
297] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
298] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
299] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
300] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
301] 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.
302] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
303] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
304] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
305] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
306] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
307] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
308] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
309] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
310] 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.
311] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
312] 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.
313] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
314] 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)
315] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
316] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
317] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
318] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
319] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
320] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
321] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
322] 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.
323] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
324] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
325] 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
326] 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
327] 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.
328] 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.
329] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
330] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
331] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
332] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
333] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
334] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
335] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
336] 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.
337] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
338] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
339] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
340] 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.
341] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
342] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
343] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
344] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
345] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
346] 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
347] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
348] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
349] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
350] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
351] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
352] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
353] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
354] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
355] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
356] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
357] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
358] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
359] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
360] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
361] 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
362] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
363] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
364] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
365] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
366] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
367] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
368] 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.
369] 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.
370] 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
371] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
372] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
373] 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
374] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
375] 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)
376] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
377] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
378] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
379] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
380] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
381] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
382] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
383] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
384] 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
385] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
386] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
387] 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.
388] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
389] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
390] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
391] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
392] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
393] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
394] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
395] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
396] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
397] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
398] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
399] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
400] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
401] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
402] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
403] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
404] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
405] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
406] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
407] 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)
408] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
409] 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.
410] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
411] 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.
412] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
413] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
414] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
415] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
416] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
417] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
418] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
419] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
420] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
421] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
422] 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.
423] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
424] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
425] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
426] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
427] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
428] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
429] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
430] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
431] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
432] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
433] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
434] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
435] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
436] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
437] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
438] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
439] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
440] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
441] 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
442] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
443] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
444] 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
445] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
446] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
447] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
448] 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.
449] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
450] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
451] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
452] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
453] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
454] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
455] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
456] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
457] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
458] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
459] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
460] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
461] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
462] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
463] 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.
464] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
465] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
466] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
467] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
468] 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).
469] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
470] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
471] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
472] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
473] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
474] 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
475] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
476] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
477] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
478] 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.
479] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
480] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
481] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
482] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
483] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
484] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
485] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
486] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
487] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
488] 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.
489] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
490] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
491] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
492] 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
493] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
494] 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
495] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
496] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
497] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
498] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
499] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
500] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
501] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
502] 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
503] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
504] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
505] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
506] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
507] 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
508] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
509] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
510] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
512] 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
513] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
514] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
515] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
516] 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.
517] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
518] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
519] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
520] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
521] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
522] 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)
523] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
524] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
525] 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
526] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
527] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
528] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
529] 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
530] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
531] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
532] 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)
533] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
534] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
535] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
536] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
537] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
538] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
539] 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.
540] 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
541] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
542] 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
543] 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.
544] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
545] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
546] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
547] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
548] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
549] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
550] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
551] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
552] 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.
553] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
554] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
555] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
556] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
557] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
558] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
559] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
560] 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.
561] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
562] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
563] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
564] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
565] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
566] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
567] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
568] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
569] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
570] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
571] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
572] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
573] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
574] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
575] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
576] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
577] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
578] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
579] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
580] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
581] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
582] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
583] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
584] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
585] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
586] 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
587] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
588] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
589] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
590] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
591] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
592] 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.
593] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
594] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
595] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
596] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
597] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
598] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
599] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
600] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.