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1] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
2] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
3] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
4] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
5] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
6] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
7] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
8] 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
9] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
10] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
11] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
12] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
13] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
14] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
15] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
16] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
17] 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.
18] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
19] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
20] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
21] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
22] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
23] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
24] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
25] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
26] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
27] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
28] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
29] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
30] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
31] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
32] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
33] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
34] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
35] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
36] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
37] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
38] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
39] 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
40] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
41] 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.
42] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
43] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
44] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
45] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
46] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
47] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
48] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
49] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
50] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
51] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
52] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
53] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
54] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
55] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
56] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
57] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
58] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
59] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
60] 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.
61] 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
62] 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.
63] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
65] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
66] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
67] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
68] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
69] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
70] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
71] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
72] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
73] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
74] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
75] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
76] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
77] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
78] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
79] 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.
80] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
81] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
82] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
83] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
84] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
85] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
86] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
87] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
88] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
89] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
90] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
91] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
92] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
93] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
94] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
95] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
96] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
97] 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
98] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
99] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
100] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
101] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
102] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
103] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
104] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
105] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
106] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
107] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
108] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
109] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
110] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
111] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
112] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
113] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
114] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
115] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
117] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
118] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
119] 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)
120] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
121] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
122] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
123] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
124] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
125] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
126] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
127] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
128] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
129] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
130] 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
131] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
132] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
133] 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).
134] 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.
135] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
136] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
137] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
138] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
139] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
140] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
141] 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
142] 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).
143] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
145] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
146] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
147] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
148] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
149] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
150] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
151] 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)
152] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
153] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
154] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
155] 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.
156] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
157] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
158] 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.
159] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
160] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
161] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
162] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
163] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
164] 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
165] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
166] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
167] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
168] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
169] 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.
170] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
171] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
172] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
173] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
174] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
175] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
176] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
177] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
178] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
179] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
180] 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
181] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
182] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
183] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
184] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
185] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
186] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
187] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
188] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
189] 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
190] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
191] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
192] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
193] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
194] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
195] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
196] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
197] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
198] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
199] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
200] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
201] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
202] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
203] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
204] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
205] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
206] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
207] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
208] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
209] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
210] 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
211] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
212] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
213] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
214] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
215] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
216] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
217] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
218] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
219] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
220] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
221] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
222] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
223] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
224] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
225] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
226] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
227] 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.
228] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
229] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
230] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
231] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
232] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
233] 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
234] 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.
235] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
236] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
237] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
238] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
239] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
240] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
241] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
242] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
243] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
244] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
245] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
246] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
247] 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.
248] 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 .
249] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
250] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
251] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
252] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
253] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
254] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
255] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
257] 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
258] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
259] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
260] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
261] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
262] 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
263] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
264] 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)
265] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
266] 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.
267] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
268] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
269] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
270] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
271] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
272] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
273] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
274] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
275] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
276] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
277] 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.
278] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
279] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
280] 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.
281] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
282] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
283] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
284] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
285] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
286] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
287] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
288] 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.
289] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
290] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
291] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
292] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
293] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
294] 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)
295] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
296] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
297] 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.
298] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
299] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
300] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
301] 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.
302] 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
303] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
304] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
305] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
306] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
307] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
308] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
309] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
310] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
311] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
312] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
313] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
314] 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.
315] 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.
316] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
317] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
318] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
319] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
320] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
321] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
322] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
323] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
324] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
325] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
326] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
327] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
328] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
329] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
330] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
331] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
332] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
333] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
334] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
335] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
336] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
337] 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.
338] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
339] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
340] 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
341] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
342] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
343] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
344] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
345] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
346] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
347] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
348] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
349] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
350] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
351] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
352] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
353] 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
354] 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.
355] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
356] 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.
357] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
358] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
359] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
360] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
361] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
362] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
363] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
364] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
365] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
366] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
367] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
368] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
369] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
370] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
371] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
372] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
373] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
374] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
375] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
376] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
377] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
378] 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)
379] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
380] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
381] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
382] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
383] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
384] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
385] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
386] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
387] 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.
388] 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)
389] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
390] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
391] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
392] 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
393] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
394] 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.
395] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
396] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
397] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
398] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
399] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
400] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
401] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
402] 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
403] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
404] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
405] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
406] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
407] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
408] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
409] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
410] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
411] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
412] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
413] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
414] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
415] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
416] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
417] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
418] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
419] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
420] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
421] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
422] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
423] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
424] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
425] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
426] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
427] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
428] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
429] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
430] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
431] 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)
432] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
433] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
434] 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.
435] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
436] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
437] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
438] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
439] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
440] 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
441] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
442] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
443] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
444] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
445] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
446] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
447] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
448] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
449] 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
450] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
451] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
452] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
453] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
454] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
455] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
456] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
457] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
458] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
459] 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)
460] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
461] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
462] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
463] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
464] 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)
465] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
466] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
467] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
468] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
469] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
470] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
471] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
472] Commonsense is not so common.
473] 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
474] 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.
475] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
476] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
477] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
478] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
479] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
480] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
481] 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.
482] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
483] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
484] 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.
485] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
486] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
487] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
488] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
489] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
490] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
491] 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)
492] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
493] 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
494] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
495] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
496] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
497] 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.”
498] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
499] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
500] 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
501] 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.
502] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
503] 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
504] 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
505] 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
506] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
507] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
508] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
509] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
510] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
511] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
512] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
513] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
514] 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.
515] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
516] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
517] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
518] 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)
519] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
520] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
521] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
522] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
523] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
524] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
525] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
526] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
527] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
528] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
529] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
530] 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
531] 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.
532] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
533] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
534] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
535] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
536] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
537] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
538] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
539] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
540] 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.
541] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
542] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
543] 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.
544] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
545] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
546] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
547] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
548] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
549] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
550] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
551] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
552] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
553] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
554] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
555] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
556] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
557] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
558] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
559] 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
560] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
561] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
562] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
563] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
564] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
565] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
566] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
567] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
568] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
569] 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)
570] 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.
571] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
572] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
573] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
574] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
575] 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.
576] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
577] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
578] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
579] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
580] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
581] 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.
582] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
583] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
584] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
585] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
586] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
587] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
588] 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.
589] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
590] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
591] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
592] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
593] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
594] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
595] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
596] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
597] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
598] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
599] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
600] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca