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1] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
2] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
3] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
4] 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).
5] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
6] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
7] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
8] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
9] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
10] 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
11] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
12] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
13] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
14] 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).
15] 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
16] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
17] 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
18] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
19] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
20] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
22] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
23] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
24] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
25] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
26] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
27] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
28] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
29] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
30] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
31] 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.
32] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
33] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
35] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
36] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
37] 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
38] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
39] 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.
40] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
41] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
42] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
43] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
44] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
45] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
46] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
47] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
49] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
50] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
51] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
52] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
53] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
54] 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
55] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
56] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
57] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
58] 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.
59] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
60] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
61] 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
62] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
63] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
64] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
65] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
66] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
67] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
68] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
69] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
70] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
71] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
72] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
73] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
74] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
75] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
76] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
77] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
78] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
79] 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
80] 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.
81] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
82] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
83] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
84] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
85] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
86] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
87] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
88] 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.
89] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
90] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
91] 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.
92] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
93] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
94] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
95] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
96] 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.
97] 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.
98] 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.
99] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
100] 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.
101] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
102] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
103] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
104] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
105] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
106] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
107] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
108] 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.
109] 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)
110] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
111] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
112] 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.
113] 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.
114] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
115] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
116] 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.
117] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
118] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
119] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
120] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
121] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
122] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
123] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
124] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
125] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
126] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
127] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
128] 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.
129] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
130] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
131] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
132] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
133] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
134] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
135] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
136] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
137] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
138] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
140] 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.
141] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
142] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
143] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
144] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
145] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
146] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
147] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
148] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
149] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
150] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
151] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
152] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
153] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
154] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
155] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
156] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
157] 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
158] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
159] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
160] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
161] 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)
162] 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.
163] 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.
164] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
165] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
166] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
167] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
168] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
169] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
170] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
171] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
172] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
173] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
174] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
175] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
176] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
177] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
178] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
179] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
180] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
181] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
182] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
183] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
184] 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
185] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
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] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
188] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
189] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
190] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
191] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
192] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
193] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
194] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
195] 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
196] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
197] 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.
198] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
199] 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.
200] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
201] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
202] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
203] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
204] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
205] 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
206] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
207] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
208] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
209] 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.
210] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
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] 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
213] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
214] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
215] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
216] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
217] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
218] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
219] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
220] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
221] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
222] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
223] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
224] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
225] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
226] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
227] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
228] 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.
229] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
230] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
231] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
232] 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.
233] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
234] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
235] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
236] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
237] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
238] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
239] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
240] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
241] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
242] 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
243] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
244] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
245] 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.
246] 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.
247] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
248] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
249] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
250] 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.
251] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
252] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
253] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
254] 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.
255] 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.
256] 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)
257] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
258] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
259] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
260] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
261] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
262] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
263] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
264] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
265] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
266] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
267] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
268] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
269] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
270] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
271] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
272] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
273] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
274] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
275] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
276] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
277] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
278] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
279] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
280] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
281] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
282] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
283] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
284] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
285] 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.
286] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
287] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
288] 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
289] 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
290] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
291] 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.
292] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
293] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
294] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
295] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
296] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
297] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
298] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
299] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
300] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
301] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
302] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
303] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
304] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
305] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
306] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
307] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
308] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
309] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
310] 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)
311] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
312] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
313] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
314] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
315] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
316] 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
317] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
318] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
319] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
320] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
321] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
322] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
323] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
324] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
325] 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.
326] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
327] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
328] 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.”
329] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
330] 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
331] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
332] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
333] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
334] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
335] 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
336] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
337] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
338] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
339] 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.
340] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
341] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
342] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
343] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
344] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
345] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
346] 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.
347] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
348] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
349] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
350] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
351] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
352] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
353] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
354] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
355] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
356] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
357] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
358] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
359] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
360] 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
361] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
362] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
363] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
364] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
365] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
366] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
367] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
368] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
369] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
370] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
371] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
372] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
373] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
374] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
375] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
376] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
377] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
378] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
379] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
380] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
381] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
382] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
383] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
384] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
385] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
386] 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.
387] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
388] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
389] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
390] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
391] 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
392] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
393] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
394] 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)
395] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
396] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
397] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
398] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
399] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
400] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
401] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
402] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
403] 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)
404] 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.
405] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
406] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
407] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
408] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
409] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
410] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
411] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
412] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
413] 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
414] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
415] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
416] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
417] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
418] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
419] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
420] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
421] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
422] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
423] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
424] 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
425] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
426] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
427] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
428] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
429] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
430] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
431] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
432] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
433] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
434] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
435] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
436] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
437] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
438] 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.
439] 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
440] 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.
441] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
442] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
443] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
444] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
445] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
446] 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
447] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
448] 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
449] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
450] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
451] 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)
452] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
453] 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.
454] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
455] 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)
456] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
457] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
458] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
459] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
460] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
461] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
462] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
463] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
464] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
465] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
466] 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.
467] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
468] 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
469] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
470] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
471] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
472] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
473] 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
474] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
475] 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
476] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
477] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
478] 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
479] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
480] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
481] 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
482] 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
483] 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.
484] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
485] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
486] 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)
487] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
488] 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)
489] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
490] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
491] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
492] 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
493] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
494] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
495] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
496] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
497] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
498] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
499] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
500] 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
501] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
502] 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.
503] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
504] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
505] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
506] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
507] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
508] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
509] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
510] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
511] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
512] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
513] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
514] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
515] 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.
516] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
517] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
518] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
519] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
520] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
521] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
522] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
523] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
524] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
525] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
526] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
527] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
528] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
529] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
530] 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.
531] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
532] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
533] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
534] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
535] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
536] 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.
537] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
538] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
539] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
540] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
541] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
542] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
543] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
544] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
545] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
546] 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)
547] 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
548] 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)
549] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
550] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
551] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
552] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
553] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
554] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
555] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
556] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
557] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
558] 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 .
559] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
560] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
561] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
562] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
563] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
564] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
565] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
566] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
567] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
568] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
569] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
570] 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.
571] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
572] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
573] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
574] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
575] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
576] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
577] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
578] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
579] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
580] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
581] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
582] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
583] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
584] 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
585] 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.
586] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
587] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
588] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
589] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
590] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
591] 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
592] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
593] 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
594] 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).
595] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
596] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
597] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
598] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
599] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
600] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.