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1] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
2] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
3] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
4] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
5] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
6] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
7] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
8] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
9] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
10] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
11] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
12] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
13] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
14] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
15] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
16] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
17] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
18] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
19] 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)
20] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
21] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
22] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
23] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
24] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
25] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
26] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
27] 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)
28] 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
29] 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
30] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
31] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
32] 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)
33] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
34] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
35] 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
36] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
37] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
38] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
39] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
40] 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
41] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
42] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
43] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
44] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
45] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
46] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
47] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
48] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
49] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
50] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
51] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
52] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
53] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
54] 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
55] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
56] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
57] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
58] 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.
59] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
60] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
61] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
62] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
63] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
64] 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)
65] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
66] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
67] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
68] 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.
69] 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
70] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
71] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
72] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
73] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
74] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
75] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
76] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
77] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
78] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
79] 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.
80] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
81] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
82] 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)
83] 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.
84] 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.
85] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
86] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
87] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
88] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
89] 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.
90] 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.
91] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
92] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
93] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
94] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
95] 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
96] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
97] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
98] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
99] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
100] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
101] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
102] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
103] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
104] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
105] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
106] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
107] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
108] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
109] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
110] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
111] 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)
112] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
113] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
114] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
115] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
116] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
117] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
118] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
119] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
120] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
121] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
122] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
123] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
124] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
125] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
126] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
127] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
128] 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
129] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
130] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
131] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
132] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
133] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
134] 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
135] 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)
136] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
137] 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.
138] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
139] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
140] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
141] 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)
142] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
143] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
144] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
145] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
146] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
147] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
148] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
149] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
150] 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
151] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
152] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
153] 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.
154] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
155] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
156] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
157] 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
158] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
159] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
160] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
161] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
162] 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)
163] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
164] 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
165] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
166] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
167] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
168] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
169] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
170] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
171] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
172] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
173] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
174] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
175] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
176] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
177] 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
178] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
179] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
180] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
181] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
182] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
183] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
184] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
185] 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 .
186] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
187] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
188] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
189] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
190] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
191] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
192] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
193] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
194] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
195] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
196] 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.
197] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
198] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
199] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
200] 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.
201] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
202] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
203] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
205] 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.
206] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
207] 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
208] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
209] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
210] 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.
211] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
212] 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.
213] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
214] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
215] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
216] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
217] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
218] 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.
219] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
220] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
221] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
222] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
223] 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
224] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
225] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
226] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
227] 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.
228] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
229] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
230] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
231] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
232] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
233] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
234] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
235] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
236] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
237] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
238] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
239] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
240] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
241] 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.
242] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
243] 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.
244] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
245] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
246] 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
247] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
248] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
249] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
250] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
251] 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.
252] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
253] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
254] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
255] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
256] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
257] 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.
258] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
259] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
260] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
261] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
262] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
263] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
264] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
265] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
266] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
267] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
268] 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.
269] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
270] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
271] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
272] 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
273] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
274] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
275] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
276] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
277] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
278] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
279] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
280] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
281] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
282] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
283] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
284] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
285] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
286] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
287] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
288] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
289] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
290] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
291] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
292] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
293] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
294] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
295] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
296] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
297] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
298] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
299] 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
300] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
301] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
302] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
303] 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
304] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
305] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
306] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
307] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
308] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
309] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
310] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
311] 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
312] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
313] 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.
314] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
315] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
316] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
317] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
318] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
319] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
320] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
321] 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
322] 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
323] 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
324] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
325] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
326] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
327] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
328] 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.
329] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
330] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
331] 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.
332] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
333] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
334] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
335] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
336] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
337] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
338] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
339] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
340] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
341] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
342] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
343] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
344] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
345] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
346] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
347] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
348] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
349] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
350] 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)
351] 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)
352] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
353] 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
354] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
355] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
356] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
357] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
358] 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.
359] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
360] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
361] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
362] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
363] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
364] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
365] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
366] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
367] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
368] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
369] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
370] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
371] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
372] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
373] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
374] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
375] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
376] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
377] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
378] 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.
379] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
380] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
381] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
382] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
383] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
384] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
385] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
386] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
387] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
388] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
389] 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.
390] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
391] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
392] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
393] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
394] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
395] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
396] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
397] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
398] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
399] 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.
400] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
401] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
402] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
403] 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.
404] 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.
405] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
406] 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.
407] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
408] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
409] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
410] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
411] 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)
412] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
413] 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.
414] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
415] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
416] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
417] 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
418] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
419] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
420] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
421] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
422] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
423] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
424] 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.
425] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
426] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
427] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
428] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
429] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
430] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
431] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
432] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
433] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
434] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
435] 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
436] 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
437] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
438] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
439] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
440] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
441] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
442] 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.
443] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
444] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
445] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
446] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
447] 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)
448] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
449] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
450] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
451] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
452] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
453] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
454] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
456] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
457] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
458] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
459] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
460] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
461] 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.
462] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
463] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] 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.
465] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
466] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
467] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
469] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
470] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
471] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
472] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
473] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
474] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
475] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
476] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
477] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
478] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
479] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
480] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
481] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
482] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
483] 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
484] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
485] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
486] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
487] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
488] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
489] 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.
490] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
491] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
492] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
493] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
494] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
495] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
496] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
497] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
498] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
499] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
500] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
501] 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
502] 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.
503] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
504] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
505] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
506] 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
507] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
508] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
509] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
510] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
511] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
512] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
513] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
514] 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
515] 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
516] 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
517] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
518] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
519] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
520] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
521] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
522] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
523] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
524] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
525] 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)
526] 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.
527] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
528] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
529] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
530] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
531] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
532] 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.
533] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
534] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
535] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
536] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
537] 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)
538] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
539] 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)
540] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
541] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
542] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
543] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
544] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
545] 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.
546] 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.”
547] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
548] 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.
549] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
550] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
551] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
552] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
553] 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
554] 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.”
555] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
556] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
557] 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.
558] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
559] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
560] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
561] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
562] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
563] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
564] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
565] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
566] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
567] 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
568] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
569] 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.
570] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
571] 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
572] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
573] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
574] 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.
575] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
576] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
577] 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)
578] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
579] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
580] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
581] 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
582] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
583] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
584] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
585] 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.
586] 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.
587] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
588] 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.
589] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
590] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
591] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
592] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
593] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
594] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
595] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
596] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
597] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
598] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
599] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
600] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.