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1] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
2] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
3] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
4] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
5] 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
6] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
7] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
8] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
9] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
10] 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.
11] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
12] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
13] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
14] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
15] 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)
16] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
17] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
18] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
19] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
20] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
21] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
22] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
23] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
24] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
25] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
26] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
27] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
28] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
29] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
30] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
31] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
32] 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.
33] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
34] 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
35] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
36] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
37] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
38] 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.
39] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
40] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
41] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
42] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
43] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
44] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
45] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
46] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
47] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
48] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
49] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
50] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
51] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
52] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
53] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
54] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
55] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
56] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
57] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
58] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
59] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
60] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
61] 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
62] 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
63] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
64] 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)
65] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
66] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
67] 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.”
68] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
69] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
70] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
71] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
72] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
73] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
74] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
75] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
76] 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
77] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
78] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
79] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
80] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
81] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
82] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
83] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
84] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
85] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
86] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
87] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
88] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
89] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
90] 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.
91] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
92] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
93] 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
94] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
95] 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
96] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
97] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
98] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
99] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
100] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
101] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
102] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
103] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
104] 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.
105] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
106] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
107] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
108] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
109] 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
110] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
111] 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)
112] 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.
113] 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
114] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
115] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
116] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
117] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
118] 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.
119] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
120] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
121] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
122] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
123] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
124] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
125] 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.
126] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
127] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
128] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
129] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
130] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
131] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
132] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
133] 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.
134] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
135] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
136] 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
137] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
138] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
139] 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)
140] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
141] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
142] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
143] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
144] 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.
145] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
146] 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
147] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
148] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
149] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
150] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
151] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
152] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
153] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
154] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
155] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
156] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
157] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
158] 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.
159] 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.
160] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
161] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
162] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
163] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
164] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
165] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
166] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
167] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
168] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
169] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
170] 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
171] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
172] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
173] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
174] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
175] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
176] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
177] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
178] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
179] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
180] 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
181] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
182] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
183] 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
184] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
185] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
186] 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.
187] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
188] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
189] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
190] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
191] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
192] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
193] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
194] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
195] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
196] 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.
197] 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
198] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
199] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
200] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
201] 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
202] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
203] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
204] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
205] 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)
206] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
207] 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
208] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
209] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
210] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
211] 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)
212] 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.
213] 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.
214] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
215] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
216] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
217] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
218] 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.
219] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
220] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
221] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
222] 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.
223] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
224] 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.
225] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
226] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
227] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
228] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
229] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
230] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
231] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
232] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
233] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
234] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
235] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
236] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
237] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
238] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
239] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
240] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
241] 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.
242] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
243] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
244] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
245] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
246] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
247] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
248] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
249] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
250] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
251] 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
252] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
253] 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.
254] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
255] 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
256] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
257] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
258] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
259] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
260] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
261] 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
262] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
263] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
264] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
265] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
266] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
267] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
268] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
269] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
270] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
271] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
272] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
273] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
274] 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)
275] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
276] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
277] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
278] 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).
279] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
280] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
281] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
282] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
283] 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.
284] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
285] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
286] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
287] 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.
288] 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
289] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
290] 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.
291] 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
292] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
293] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
294] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
295] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
296] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
297] 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
298] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
299] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
300] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
301] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
302] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
303] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
304] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
305] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
306] 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.
307] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
308] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
309] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
310] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
311] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
312] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
313] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
314] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
315] 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
316] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
317] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
318] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
319] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
320] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
321] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
322] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
323] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
324] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
325] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
326] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
327] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
328] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
329] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
330] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
331] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
332] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
333] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
334] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
335] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
336] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
337] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
338] 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.
339] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
340] 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.
341] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
342] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
343] 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.
344] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
345] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
346] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
347] 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.
348] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
349] 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
350] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
351] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
352] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
353] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
354] 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
355] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
356] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
357] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
358] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
359] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
360] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
361] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
362] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
363] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
364] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
365] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
366] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
367] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
368] 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.
369] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
370] 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.
371] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
372] 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
373] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
374] 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.
375] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
376] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
377] 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.
378] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
379] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
380] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
381] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
382] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
383] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
384] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
385] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
386] 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.
387] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
388] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
389] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
390] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
391] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
392] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
393] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
394] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
395] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
396] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
397] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
398] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
399] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
400] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
401] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
402] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
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] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
405] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
406] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
407] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
408] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
409] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
410] 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.
411] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
412] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
413] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
414] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
415] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
416] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
417] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
418] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
419] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
420] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
421] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
422] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
423] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
424] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
425] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
426] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
427] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
428] 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.
429] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
430] 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.
431] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
432] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
433] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
434] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
435] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
436] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
437] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
438] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
439] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
440] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
441] 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)
442] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
443] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
444] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
445] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
446] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
447] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
448] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
449] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
450] 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.
451] 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.
452] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
453] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
454] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
455] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
456] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
457] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
458] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
459] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
460] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
461] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
462] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
463] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
464] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
465] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
466] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
467] 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)
468] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
469] 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 .
470] 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
471] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
472] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
473] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
474] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
475] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
476] 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.
477] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
478] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
479] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
480] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
481] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
482] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
483] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
484] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
485] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
486] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
487] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
488] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
489] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
490] 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.
491] 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
492] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
493] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
494] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
495] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
496] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
497] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
498] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
499] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
500] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
501] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
502] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
503] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
504] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
505] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
506] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
507] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
508] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
509] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
510] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
511] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
512] 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.
513] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
514] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
515] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
516] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
517] 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
518] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
519] 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.
520] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
521] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
522] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
523] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
524] 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)
525] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
526] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
527] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
528] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
529] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
530] 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
531] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
532] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
533] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
534] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
535] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
536] 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
537] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
538] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
539] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
540] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
541] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
542] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
543] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
544] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
545] 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
546] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
547] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
548] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
549] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
550] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
551] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
552] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
553] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
554] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
555] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
556] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
557] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
558] 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.
559] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
560] 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)
561] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
562] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
563] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
564] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
565] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
566] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
567] 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)
568] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
569] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
570] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
571] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
572] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
573] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
574] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
575] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
576] 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).
577] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
578] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
579] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
580] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
581] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
582] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
583] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
584] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
585] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
586] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
587] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
588] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
589] 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.
590] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
591] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
592] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
593] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
594] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
595] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
596] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
597] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
598] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
599] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
600] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.