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1] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
2] 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.
3] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
4] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
5] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
6] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
7] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
8] 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)
9] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
10] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
11] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
12] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
13] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
14] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
15] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
16] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
17] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
18] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
19] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
20] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
21] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
22] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
23] 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)
24] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
25] 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
26] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
27] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
28] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
29] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
30] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
31] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
32] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
33] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
34] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
35] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
36] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
37] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
38] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
39] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
40] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
41] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
42] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
43] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
44] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
45] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
46] 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)
47] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
48] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
49] 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
50] 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.
51] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
52] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
53] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
54] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
55] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
56] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
57] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
58] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
59] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
60] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
61] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
62] 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.
63] 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
64] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
65] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
66] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
67] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
68] 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)
69] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
70] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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71] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
72] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
73] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
74] 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.
75] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
76] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
77] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
78] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
79] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
80] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
81] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
82] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
83] 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
84] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
85] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
86] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
87] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
88] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
89] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
90] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
91] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
92] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
93] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
94] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
95] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
96] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
97] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
98] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
99] 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)
100] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
101] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
102] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
103] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
104] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
105] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
106] 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
107] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
108] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
109] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
110] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
111] 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)
112] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
113] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
114] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
115] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
116] 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)
117] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
118] 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).
119] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
120] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
121] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
122] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
123] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
124] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
125] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
126] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
127] 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)
128] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
129] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
130] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
131] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
132] 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
133] 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.
134] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
135] 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)
136] 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
137] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
138] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
139] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
140] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
141] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
142] 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)
143] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
144] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
145] 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)
146] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
147] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
148] 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
149] 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
150] 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
151] 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.
152] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
153] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
154] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
155] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
156] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
157] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
158] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
159] 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
160] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
161] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
162] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
163] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
164] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
165] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
166] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
167] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
168] 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.
169] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
170] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
171] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
172] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
173] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
174] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
175] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
176] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
177] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
178] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
179] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
180] 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.
181] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
182] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
183] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
184] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
185] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
186] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
187] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
188] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
189] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
190] 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.
191] 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.
192] 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.
193] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
194] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
195] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
196] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
197] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
198] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
199] 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
200] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
201] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
202] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
203] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
204] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
205] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
206] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
207] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
208] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
209] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
210] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
211] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
212] 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.
213] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
214] 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)
215] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
216] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
217] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
218] 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.
219] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
220] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
221] 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
222] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
223] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
224] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
225] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
226] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
227] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
228] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
229] 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
230] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
231] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
232] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
233] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
234] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
235] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
236] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
237] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
238] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
239] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
240] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
241] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
242] 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)
243] 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.
244] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
245] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
246] 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.
247] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
248] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
249] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
250] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
251] 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.
252] 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.
253] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
254] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
255] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
256] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
257] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
258] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
259] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
260] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
261] 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
262] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
263] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
264] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
265] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
266] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
267] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
268] 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.
269] 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
270] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
271] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
272] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
273] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
274] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
275] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
276] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
277] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
278] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
279] 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)
280] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
281] 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
282] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
283] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
284] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
285] 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
286] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
287] 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
288] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
289] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
290] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
291] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
292] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
293] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
294] 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.
295] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
296] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
297] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
298] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
299] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
300] 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
301] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
302] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
303] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
304] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
305] 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)
306] 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
307] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
308] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
309] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
310] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
311] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
312] 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
313] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
314] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
315] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
316] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
317] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
318] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
319] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
320] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
321] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
322] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
323] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
324] 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
325] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
326] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
327] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
328] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
329] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
330] 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
331] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
332] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
333] 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
334] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
335] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
336] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
337] 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.
338] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
339] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
340] 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)
341] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
342] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
343] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
344] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
345] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
346] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
347] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
348] 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).
349] 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.
350] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
351] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
352] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
353] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
354] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
355] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
356] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
357] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
358] 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
359] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
360] 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
361] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
362] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
363] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
364] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
365] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
366] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
367] 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)
368] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
369] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
370] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
371] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
372] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
373] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
374] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
375] 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).
376] 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
377] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
378] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
379] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
380] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
381] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
382] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
383] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
384] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
385] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
386] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
387] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
388] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
389] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
390] Commonsense is not so common.
391] 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.
392] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
393] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
394] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
395] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
396] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
397] 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.
398] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
399] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
400] 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.
401] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
402] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
403] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
404] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
405] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
406] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
407] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
408] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
409] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
410] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
411] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
412] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
413] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
414] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
415] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
416] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
417] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
418] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
419] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
420] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
421] 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.
422] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
423] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
424] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
425] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
426] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
427] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
428] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
429] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
430] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
431] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
432] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
433] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
434] 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.
435] 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)
436] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
437] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
438] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
439] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
440] 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
441] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
442] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
443] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
444] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
445] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
446] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
447] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
448] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
449] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
450] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
451] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
452] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
453] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
454] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
456] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
457] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
458] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
459] 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.
460] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
461] 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.
462] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
463] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
464] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
465] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
466] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
467] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
468] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
469] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
470] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
471] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
472] 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
473] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
474] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
475] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
476] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
477] 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)
478] 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.
479] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
480] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
481] 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
482] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
483] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
484] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
485] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
486] 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.
487] 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
488] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
489] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
490] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
491] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
492] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
493] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
495] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
496] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
497] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
498] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
499] 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
500] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
501] 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
502] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
503] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
504] 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.
505] 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)
506] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
507] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
508] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
509] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
510] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
511] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
512] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
513] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
514] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
515] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
516] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
517] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
518] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
519] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
520] 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.
521] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
522] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
523] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
524] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
525] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
526] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
527] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
528] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
529] 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.
530] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
531] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
532] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
533] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
534] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
535] 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
536] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
537] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
538] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
539] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
540] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
541] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
542] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
543] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
544] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
545] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
546] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
547] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
548] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
549] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
550] 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
551] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
552] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
553] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
554] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
555] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
556] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
557] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
558] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
559] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
560] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
561] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
562] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
563] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
564] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
565] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
566] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
567] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
568] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
569] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
570] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
571] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
572] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
573] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
574] 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.
575] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
576] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
577] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
578] 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.
579] 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
580] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
581] 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)
582] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
583] 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
584] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
585] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
586] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
587] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
588] 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
589] 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)
590] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
591] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
592] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
593] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
594] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
595] 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
596] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
597] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
598] 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.
599] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
600] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).