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1] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
2] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
3] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
4] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
5] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
6] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
7] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
8] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
9] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
10] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
11] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
12] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
13] 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)
14] 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.
15] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
16] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
17] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
18] 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
19] 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
20] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
21] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
22] 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)
23] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
24] 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
25] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
26] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
27] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
28] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
29] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
30] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
31] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
32] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
33] 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.
34] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
35] 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.
36] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
37] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
38] 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
39] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
40] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
41] 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]
42] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
43] 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)
44] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
45] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
46] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
47] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
48] 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
49] 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)
50] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
51] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
52] 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.
53] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
54] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
55] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
56] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
57] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
58] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
59] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
60] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
61] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
62] 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)
63] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
64] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
65] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
66] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
67] 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
68] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
69] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
70] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
71] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
72] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
73] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
74] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
75] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
76] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
77] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
78] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
79] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
80] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
81] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
82] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
83] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
84] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
85] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
86] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
87] 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)
88] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
89] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
90] 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.
91] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
92] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
93] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
94] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
95] 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
96] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
97] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
98] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
99] 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
100] 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.
101] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
102] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
103] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
104] 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)
105] 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
106] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
107] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
108] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
109] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
110] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
111] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
112] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
113] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
114] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
115] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
116] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
117] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
118] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
119] 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.
120] 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.
121] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
122] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
123] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
124] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
125] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
126] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
127] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
128] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
129] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
130] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
131] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
132] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
133] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
134] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
135] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
136] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
137] 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
138] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
139] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
140] 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
141] 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).
142] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
143] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
144] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
145] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
146] 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)
147] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
148] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
149] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
150] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
151] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
152] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
153] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
154] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
155] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
156] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
157] 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.
158] 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
159] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
160] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
161] 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
162] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
163] 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
164] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
165] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
166] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
167] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
168] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
169] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
170] 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
171] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
172] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
173] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
174] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
175] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
176] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
177] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
178] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
179] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
180] 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.”
181] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
182] 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)
183] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
184] 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.
185] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
186] 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
187] 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
188] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
189] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
190] 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.
191] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
192] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
193] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
194] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
195] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
196] 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.
197] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
198] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
199] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
200] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
201] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
202] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
203] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
204] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
205] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
206] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
207] 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).
208] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
209] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
210] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
211] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
212] 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.
213] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
214] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
215] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
216] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
217] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
218] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
219] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
220] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
221] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
222] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
223] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
224] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
225] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
226] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
227] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
228] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
229] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
230] 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)
231] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
232] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
233] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
234] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
235] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
236] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
237] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
238] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
239] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
240] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
241] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
242] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
243] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
244] 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)
245] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
246] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
247] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
248] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
249] 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)
250] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
251] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
252] 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.
253] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
254] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
255] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
256] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
257] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
258] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
259] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
260] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
261] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
262] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
263] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
264] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
265] 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.
266] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
267] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
268] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
269] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
270] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
271] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
272] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
273] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
274] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
275] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
276] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
277] 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.
278] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
279] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
280] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
281] 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
282] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
283] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
284] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
285] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
286] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
287] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
288] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
289] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
290] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
291] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
292] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
293] 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.
294] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
295] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
296] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
297] 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
298] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
299] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
300] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
301] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
302] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
303] 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.
304] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
305] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
306] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
307] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
308] 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.
309] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
310] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
311] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
312] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
313] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
314] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
315] 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.
316] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
317] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
318] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
319] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
320] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
321] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
322] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
323] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
324] 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.
325] 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
326] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
327] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
328] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
329] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
330] 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.
331] 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
332] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
333] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
334] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
335] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
336] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
337] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
338] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
339] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
340] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
341] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
342] 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.
343] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
345] 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
346] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
347] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
348] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
349] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
350] 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.
351] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
352] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
353] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
354] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
355] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
356] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
357] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
358] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
359] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
360] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
361] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
362] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
363] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
364] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
365] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
366] 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.
367] 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
368] 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.
369] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
370] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
371] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
372] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
373] 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.
374] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
375] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
376] 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
377] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
378] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
379] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
380] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
381] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
382] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
383] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
384] 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.
385] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
386] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
387] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
388] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
389] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
390] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
391] 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.
392] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
393] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
394] 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.
395] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
396] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
397] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
398] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
399] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
400] 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 .
401] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
402] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
403] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
404] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
405] 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)
406] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
407] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
408] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
409] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
410] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
411] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
412] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
413] 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
414] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
415] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
416] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
417] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
418] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
419] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
420] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
421] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
422] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
423] 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
424] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
425] 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.
426] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
427] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
428] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
429] 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)
430] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
431] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
432] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
433] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
434] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
435] 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.
436] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
437] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
438] 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
439] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
440] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
441] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
442] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
443] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
444] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
445] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
446] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
447] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
448] 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.
449] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
450] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
451] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
452] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
453] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
454] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
455] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
456] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
457] 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.
458] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
459] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
460] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
461] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
462] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
463] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
464] 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.
465] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
466] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
467] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
468] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
469] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
470] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
471] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
472] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
473] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
474] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
475] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
476] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
477] 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.
478] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
479] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
480] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
481] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
482] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
483] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
484] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
485] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
486] Commonsense is not so common.
487] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
488] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
489] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
490] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
491] 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
492] 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.
493] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
494] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
495] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
496] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
497] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
498] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
499] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
500] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
501] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
502] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
503] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
504] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
505] 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.
506] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
507] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
508] 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).
509] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
510] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
511] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
512] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
513] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
514] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
515] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
516] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
517] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
518] 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.
519] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
520] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
521] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
522] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
523] 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.
524] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
525] 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
526] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
527] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
528] 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
529] 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
530] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
531] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
532] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
533] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
534] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
535] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
536] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
537] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
538] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
539] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
540] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
541] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
542] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
543] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
544] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
545] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
546] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
547] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
548] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
549] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
550] 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.
551] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
552] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
553] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
554] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
555] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
556] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
557] 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)
558] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
559] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
560] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
561] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
562] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
563] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
564] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
565] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
566] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
567] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
568] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
569] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
570] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
571] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
572] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
573] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
574] 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.
575] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
576] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
577] 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).
578] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
579] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
580] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
581] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
582] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
583] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
584] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
585] 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.
586] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
587] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
588] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
589] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
590] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
591] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
592] 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
593] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
594] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
595] 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)
596] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
597] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
598] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
599] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
600] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.