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1] 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.
2] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
3] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
4] 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.
5] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
6] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
7] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
8] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
9] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
10] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
11] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
12] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
13] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
14] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
15] 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.
16] 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).
17] 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.
18] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
19] 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.
20] 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.
21] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
22] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
23] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
24] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
25] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
26] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
27] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
28] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
29] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
30] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
31] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
32] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
33] 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
34] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
35] 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)
36] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
37] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
38] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
39] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
40] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
41] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
42] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
43] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
44] 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.
45] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
46] 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.
47] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
48] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
49] 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.
50] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
51] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
52] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
53] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
54] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
55] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
56] 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.
57] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
58] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
59] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
60] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
61] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
62] 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
63] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
64] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
65] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
66] 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
67] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
68] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
69] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
70] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
71] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
72] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
73] 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
74] 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.
75] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
76] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
77] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
78] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
79] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
80] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
81] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
82] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
83] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
84] 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.
85] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
86] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
87] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
88] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
89] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
90] 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.
91] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
92] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
93] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
94] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
95] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
96] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
98] 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)
99] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
100] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
101] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
102] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
103] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
104] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
105] 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)
106] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
107] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
108] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
109] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
110] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
111] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
112] 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
113] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
114] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
115] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
116] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
117] 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
118] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
119] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
120] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
121] 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.”
122] 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.
123] 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.
124] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
125] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
126] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
127] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
128] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
129] 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.
130] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
131] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
132] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
133] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
134] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
135] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
136] 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
137] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
138] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
139] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
140] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
141] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
142] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
143] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
144] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
145] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
146] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
147] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
148] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
149] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
150] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
151] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
152] 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.
153] 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.
154] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
155] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
156] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
157] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
158] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
159] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
160] 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.
161] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
162] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
163] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
164] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
165] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
166] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
167] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
168] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
169] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
170] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
171] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
172] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
173] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
174] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
175] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
176] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
177] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
178] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
179] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
180] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
181] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
182] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
183] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
184] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
185] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
186] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
187] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
188] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
189] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
190] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
191] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
192] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
193] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
194] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
195] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
196] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
197] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
198] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
199] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
200] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
201] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
202] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
203] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
204] 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
205] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
206] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
207] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
208] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
209] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
210] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
211] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
212] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
213] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
214] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
215] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
216] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
217] 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.
218] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
219] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
220] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
221] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
222] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
223] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
224] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
225] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
226] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
227] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
228] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
229] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
230] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
231] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
232] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
233] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
234] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
235] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
236] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
237] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
238] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
239] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
240] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
241] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
242] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
243] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
244] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
245] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
246] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
247] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
248] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
249] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
250] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
251] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
252] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
253] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
254] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
255] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
256] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
257] 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
258] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
259] 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
260] 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
261] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
262] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
263] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
264] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
265] 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
266] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
267] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
268] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
269] 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
270] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
271] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
272] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
273] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
274] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
275] 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.
276] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
277] 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.
278] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
279] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
280] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
281] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
282] 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
283] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
284] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
285] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
286] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
287] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
288] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
289] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
290] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
291] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
292] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
293] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
294] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
295] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
296] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
297] 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
298] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
299] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
300] 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.
301] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
302] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
303] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
304] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
305] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
306] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
307] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
308] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
309] 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
310] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
311] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
312] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
313] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
314] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
315] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
316] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
317] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
318] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
319] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
320] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
321] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
322] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
323] 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.
324] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
325] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
326] 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)
327] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
328] 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.
329] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
330] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
331] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
332] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
333] 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)
334] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
335] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
336] 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.
337] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
338] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
339] 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.
340] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
341] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
342] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
343] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
344] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
345] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
346] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
347] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
348] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
349] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
350] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
351] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
352] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
353] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
354] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
355] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
356] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
357] 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.
358] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
359] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
360] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
361] 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
362] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
363] 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
364] 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
365] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
366] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
367] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
368] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
369] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
370] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
371] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
372] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
373] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
374] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
375] 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.
376] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
377] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
378] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
379] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
380] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
381] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
382] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
383] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
384] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
385] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
386] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
387] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
388] 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)
389] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
390] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
391] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
392] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
393] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
394] 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.
395] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
396] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
397] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
398] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
399] 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)
400] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
401] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
402] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
403] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
404] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
405] 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.
406] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
407] 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
408] 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.
409] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
410] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
411] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
412] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
413] 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)
414] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
415] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
416] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
417] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
418] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
419] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
420] 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)
421] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
422] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
423] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
424] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
425] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
426] 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.
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] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
429] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
430] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
431] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
432] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
433] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
434] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
435] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
436] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
437] 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.
438] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
439] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
440] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
441] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
442] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
443] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
444] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
445] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
446] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
447] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
448] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
449] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
450] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
451] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
452] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
453] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
454] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
455] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
456] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
457] 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
458] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
459] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
460] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
461] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
462] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
463] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
464] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
465] 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
466] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
467] 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
468] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
469] 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
470] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
471] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
472] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
473] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
474] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
475] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
476] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
477] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
478] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
479] 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.
480] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
481] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
482] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
483] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
484] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
485] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
486] 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)
487] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
488] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
489] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
490] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
491] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
492] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
493] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
494] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
495] 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)
496] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
497] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
498] 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)
499] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
500] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
501] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
502] 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
503] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
504] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
505] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
506] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
507] 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
508] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
509] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
510] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
511] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
512] 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.
513] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
514] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
515] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
516] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
517] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
518] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
519] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
520] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
521] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
522] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
523] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
524] 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)
525] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
526] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
527] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
528] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
529] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
530] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
531] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
532] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
533] 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
534] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
535] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
536] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
537] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
538] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
539] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
540] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
541] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
542] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
543] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
544] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
545] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
546] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
547] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
548] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
549] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
550] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
551] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
552] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
553] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
554] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
555] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
556] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
557] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
558] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
559] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
560] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
561] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
562] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
563] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
564] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
565] 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
566] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
567] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
568] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
569] 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
570] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
571] 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.
572] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
573] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
574] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
575] 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
576] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
577] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
578] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
579] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
580] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
581] 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.
582] 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.
583] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
584] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
585] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
586] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
587] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
588] 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
589] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
590] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
591] 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.
592] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
593] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
594] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
595] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
596] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
597] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
598] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
599] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
600] 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.