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1] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
2] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
3] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
4] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
5] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
6] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
7] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
8] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
9] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
10] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
11] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
12] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
13] 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.”
14] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
15] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
16] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
17] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
18] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
19] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
20] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
21] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
22] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
23] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
24] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
25] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
26] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
27] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
28] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
29] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
30] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
31] 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.
32] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
33] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
34] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
35] 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.
36] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
37] 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.
38] 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.
39] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
40] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
41] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
42] 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.
43] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
44] 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
45] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
46] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
47] 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
48] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
49] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
50] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
51] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
52] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
53] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
54] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
55] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
56] 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.
57] 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
58] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
59] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
60] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
61] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
62] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
63] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
64] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
65] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
66] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
67] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
68] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
69] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
70] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
71] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
72] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
73] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
74] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
75] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
76] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
77] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
78] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
79] 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.
80] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
81] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
82] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
83] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
84] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
85] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
86] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
87] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
88] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
89] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
90] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
91] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
92] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
93] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
94] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
95] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
96] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
97] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
98] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
99] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
100] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
101] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
102] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
103] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
104] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
105] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
106] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
107] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
108] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
109] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
110] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
111] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
112] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
113] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
114] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
115] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
116] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
117] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
118] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
119] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
120] 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.
121] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
122] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
123] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
124] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
125] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
126] 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)
127] Commonsense is not so common.
128] 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)
129] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
130] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
131] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
132] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
133] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
134] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
135] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
136] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
137] 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
138] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
139] 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)
140] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
141] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
142] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
143] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
144] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
145] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
146] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
147] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
148] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
149] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
150] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
151] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
152] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
153] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
154] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
155] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
156] 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
157] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
158] 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)
159] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
160] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
161] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
162] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
163] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
164] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
165] 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.
166] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
167] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
168] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
169] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
170] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
171] 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.
172] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
173] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
174] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
175] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
176] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
177] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
178] 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.
179] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
180] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
181] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
182] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
183] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
184] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
185] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
186] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
187] 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.
188] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
189] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
190] 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.
191] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
192] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
193] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
194] 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.
195] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
196] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
197] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
198] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
199] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
200] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
201] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
202] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
203] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
204] 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)
205] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
206] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
207] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
208] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
209] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
210] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
211] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
212] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
213] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
214] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
215] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
216] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
217] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
218] 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
219] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
220] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
221] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
222] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
223] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
224] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
225] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
226] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
227] 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)
228] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
229] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
230] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
231] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
232] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
233] 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.
234] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
235] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
236] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
237] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
238] 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.
239] 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.
240] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
241] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
242] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
243] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
244] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
245] 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)
246] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
247] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
248] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
249] 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)
250] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
251] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
252] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
253] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
254] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
255] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
256] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
257] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
258] 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)
259] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
260] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
261] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
262] 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.
263] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
264] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
265] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
266] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
267] 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.
268] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
269] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
270] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
271] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
272] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
273] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
274] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
275] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
276] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
277] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
278] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
279] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
280] 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.
281] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
282] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
283] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
284] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
285] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
286] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
287] 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.
288] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
289] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
290] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
291] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
292] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
293] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
294] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
295] 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)
296] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
297] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
298] 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.
299] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
300] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
301] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
302] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
303] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
304] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
305] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
306] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
307] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
308] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
309] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
310] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
311] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
312] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
313] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
314] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
315] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
316] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
317] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
318] 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
319] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
320] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
321] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
322] 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.
323] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
324] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
325] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
326] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
327] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
328] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
329] 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 .
330] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
331] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
332] 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
333] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
334] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
335] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
336] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
337] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
338] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
339] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
340] 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)
341] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
342] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
343] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
344] 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.
345] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
346] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
347] 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.
348] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
349] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
350] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
351] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
352] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
353] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
354] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
355] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
356] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
357] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
358] 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.
359] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
360] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
361] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
362] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
363] 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.
364] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
365] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
366] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
367] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
368] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
369] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
370] 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.
371] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
372] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
373] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
374] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
375] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
376] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
377] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
378] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
379] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
380] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
381] 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
382] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
383] 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
384] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
385] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
386] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
387] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
388] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
389] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
390] 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
391] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
392] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
393] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
394] 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
395] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
396] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
397] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
398] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
399] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
400] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
401] 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.
402] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
403] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
404] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
405] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
406] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
407] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
408] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
409] 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
410] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
411] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
412] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
413] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
414] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
415] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
416] 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.
417] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
418] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
419] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
420] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
421] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
422] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
423] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
424] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
425] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
426] 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.
427] 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
428] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
429] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
430] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
431] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
432] 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)
433] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
434] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
435] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
436] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
437] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
438] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
439] 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.
440] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
441] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
442] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
443] 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.
444] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
445] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
446] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
447] 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.
448] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
449] 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.
450] 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.
451] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
452] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
453] 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.
454] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
455] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
456] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
457] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
459] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
460] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
461] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
462] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
463] 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.
464] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
465] 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)
466] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
467] 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.
468] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
469] 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
470] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
471] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
472] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
473] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
474] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
475] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
476] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
477] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
478] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
479] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
480] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
481] 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
482] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
483] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
484] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
485] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
486] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
487] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
488] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
489] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
490] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
491] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
492] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
493] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
494] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
495] 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.
496] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
497] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
498] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
499] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
500] 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.
501] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
502] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
503] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
504] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
505] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
506] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
507] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
508] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
509] 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
510] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
511] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
512] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
513] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
514] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
515] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
516] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
517] 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
518] 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.
519] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
520] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
521] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
522] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
523] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
524] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
525] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
526] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
527] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
528] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
529] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
530] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
531] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
532] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
533] 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)
534] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
535] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
536] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
537] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
538] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
539] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
540] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
541] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
542] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
543] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
544] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
545] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
546] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
547] 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
548] 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
549] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
550] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
551] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
552] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
553] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
554] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
555] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
556] 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.
557] 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.
558] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
559] 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).
560] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
561] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
562] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
563] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
564] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
565] 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
566] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
567] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
568] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
569] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
570] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
571] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
572] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
573] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
574] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
575] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
576] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
577] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
578] 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
579] 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
580] 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
581] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
582] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
583] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
584] 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
585] 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
586] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
587] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
588] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
589] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
590] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
591] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
592] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
593] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
594] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
595] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
596] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
597] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
598] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
599] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
600] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.