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1] 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
2] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
3] 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.
4] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
5] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
6] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
7] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
8] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
9] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
10] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
11] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
13] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
14] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
15] 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
16] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
17] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
18] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
19] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
20] 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.
21] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
22] 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.
23] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
24] 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
25] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
26] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
27] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
28] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
29] 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.
30] 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
31] 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.
32] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
33] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
34] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
35] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
36] 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.
37] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
38] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
39] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
40] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
41] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
42] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
43] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
44] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
45] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
46] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
47] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
48] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
49] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
50] 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
51] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
52] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
53] 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
54] 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.
55] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
56] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
57] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
58] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
59] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
60] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
61] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
62] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
63] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
64] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
65] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
66] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
67] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
68] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
69] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
70] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
71] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
72] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
73] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
74] 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)
75] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
76] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
77] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
78] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
79] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
80] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
81] 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)
82] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
83] 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)
84] 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
85] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
86] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
87] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
88] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
89] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
90] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
91] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
92] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
93] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
94] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
95] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
96] 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.
97] 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.
98] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
99] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
100] 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)
101] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
102] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
103] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
104] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
105] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
106] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
107] 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
108] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
109] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
110] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
111] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
112] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
113] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
114] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
115] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
116] 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.
117] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
118] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
119] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
120] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
121] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
122] 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.
123] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
124] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
125] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
126] 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.
127] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
128] 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.
129] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
130] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
131] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
132] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
133] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
134] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
135] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
136] 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.
137] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
138] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
139] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
140] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
141] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
142] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
143] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
144] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
145] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
146] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
147] 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.
148] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
149] 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.
150] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
151] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
152] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
153] 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
154] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
155] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
156] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
157] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
158] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
159] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
160] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
161] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
162] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
163] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
164] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
165] 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
166] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
167] 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
168] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
169] 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.
170] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
171] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
172] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
173] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
174] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
175] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
176] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
177] 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.
178] 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)
179] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
180] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
181] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
182] 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).
183] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
184] 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.
185] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
186] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
187] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
188] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
189] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
190] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
191] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
192] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
193] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
194] 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
195] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
196] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
197] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
198] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
199] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
200] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
201] 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
202] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
203] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
204] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
205] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
206] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
207] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
208] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
209] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
210] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
211] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
212] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
213] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
214] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
215] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
216] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
217] 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.
218] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
219] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
220] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
221] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
222] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
223] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
224] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
225] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
226] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
227] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
228] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
229] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
230] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
231] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
232] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
233] 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.
234] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
235] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
236] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
237] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
238] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
239] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
240] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
241] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
242] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
243] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
244] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
245] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
246] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
247] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
248] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
249] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
250] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
251] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
252] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
253] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
254] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
255] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
257] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
258] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
259] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
260] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
261] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
262] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
263] 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.
264] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
265] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
266] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
267] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
268] 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
269] 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)
270] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
271] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
272] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
273] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
274] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
275] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
276] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
277] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
278] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
279] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
280] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
281] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
282] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
283] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
284] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
285] 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.
286] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
287] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
288] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
289] 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.
290] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
291] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
292] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
293] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
294] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
295] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
296] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
297] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
298] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
299] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
300] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
301] 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.
302] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
303] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
304] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
305] 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
306] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
307] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
308] 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.
309] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
310] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
311] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
312] 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
313] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
314] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
315] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
316] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
317] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
318] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
319] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
320] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
321] 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.”
322] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
323] 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
324] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
325] 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.
326] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
327] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
328] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
329] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
330] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
331] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
332] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
333] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
334] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
335] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
336] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
337] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
338] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
339] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
340] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
341] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
342] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
343] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
344] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
345] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
346] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
347] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
348] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
349] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
350] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
351] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
352] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
353] 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
354] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
355] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
356] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
357] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
358] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
359] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
360] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
361] 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
362] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
363] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
364] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
365] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
366] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
367] 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.
368] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
369] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
370] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
371] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
372] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
373] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
374] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
375] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
376] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
377] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
378] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
379] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
380] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
381] 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.
382] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
383] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
384] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
385] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
386] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
387] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
388] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
389] 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.
390] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
391] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
392] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
393] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
394] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
395] 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
396] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
397] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
398] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
399] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
400] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
401] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
402] 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
403] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
404] 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.
405] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
406] 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.
407] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
408] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
409] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
410] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
411] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
412] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
413] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
414] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
415] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
416] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
417] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
418] 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
419] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
420] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
421] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
422] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
423] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
424] 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.
425] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
426] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
427] 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
428] 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
429] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
430] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
431] 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).
432] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
433] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
434] 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
435] 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.
436] 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
437] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
438] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
439] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
440] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
441] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
442] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
443] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
444] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
445] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
446] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
447] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
448] 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
449] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
450] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
451] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
452] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
453] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
454] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
455] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
456] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
457] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
458] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
459] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
460] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
461] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
462] 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.
463] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
464] 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]
465] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
466] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
467] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
468] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
469] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
470] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
471] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
472] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
473] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
474] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
475] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
476] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
477] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
478] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
479] 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
480] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
481] 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.
482] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
483] 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
484] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
485] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
486] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
487] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
488] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
489] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
490] 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.
491] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
492] 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.
493] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
494] 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.
495] 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)
496] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
497] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
498] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
499] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
500] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
501] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
502] 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)
503] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
504] 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
505] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
506] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
507] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
508] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
509] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
510] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
511] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
512] 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
513] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
514] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
515] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
516] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
517] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
518] 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.
519] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
520] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
521] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
522] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
523] 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.
524] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
525] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
526] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
527] 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.
528] 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.
529] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
530] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
531] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
532] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
533] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
534] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
535] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
536] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
537] 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.
538] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
539] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
540] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
541] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
542] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
543] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
544] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
545] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
546] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
547] 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
548] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
549] 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
550] 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
551] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
552] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
553] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
554] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
555] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
556] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
557] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
558] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
559] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
560] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
561] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
562] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
563] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
564] 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.
565] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
566] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
567] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
568] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
569] 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)
570] 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
571] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
572] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
573] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
574] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
575] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
576] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
577] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
578] 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)
579] 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.
580] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
581] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
582] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
583] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
584] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
585] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
586] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
587] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
588] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
589] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
590] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
591] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
592] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
593] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
594] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
595] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
596] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
597] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
598] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
599] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
600] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.