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1] 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)
2] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
3] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
4] 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
5] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
7] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
8] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
9] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
10] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
11] 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
12] 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.
13] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
14] 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
15] 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
16] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
17] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
18] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
19] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
20] 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
21] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
22] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
23] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
24] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
26] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
27] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
28] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
29] 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
30] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
31] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
32] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
33] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
34] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
35] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
36] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
37] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
38] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
39] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
40] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
41] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
42] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
43] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
44] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
45] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
46] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
47] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
48] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
49] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
50] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
51] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
52] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
53] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
54] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
55] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
56] 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
57] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
58] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
59] 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.
60] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
61] 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.
62] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
63] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
64] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
65] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
66] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
67] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
68] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
69] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
70] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
71] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
72] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
73] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
74] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
75] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
76] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
77] 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.
78] 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
79] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
80] 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.
81] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
82] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
83] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
84] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
85] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
86] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
87] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
88] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
89] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
90] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
91] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
92] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
93] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
94] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
95] 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)
96] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
97] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
98] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
99] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
100] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
101] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
102] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
103] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
104] 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.
105] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
106] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
107] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
108] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
109] 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.
110] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
111] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
112] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
113] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
114] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
115] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
116] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
117] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
118] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
119] 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
120] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
121] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
122] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
123] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
124] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
125] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
126] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
127] 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
128] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
129] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
130] 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.
131] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
132] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
133] 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
134] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
135] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
136] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
137] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
138] Commonsense is not so common.
139] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
140] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
141] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
142] 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)
143] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
144] 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.
145] 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)
146] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
147] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
148] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
149] 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.”
150] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
151] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
152] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
153] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
154] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
155] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
156] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
157] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
158] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
159] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
160] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
161] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
162] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
163] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
164] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
165] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
166] 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.
167] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
168] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
169] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
170] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
171] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
172] 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.
173] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
174] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
175] 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.
176] 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.
177] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
178] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
179] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
180] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
181] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
182] 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.
183] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
184] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
185] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
186] 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.
187] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
188] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
189] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
190] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
191] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
192] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
193] 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.
194] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
195] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
196] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
197] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
198] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
199] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
200] 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
201] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
202] 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.
203] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
204] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
205] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
206] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
207] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
208] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
209] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
210] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
211] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
212] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
213] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
214] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
215] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
216] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
217] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
218] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
219] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
220] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
221] 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
222] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
223] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
224] 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)
225] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
226] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
227] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
228] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
229] 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.
230] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
231] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
232] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
233] 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
234] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
235] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
236] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
237] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
238] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
239] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
240] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
241] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
242] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
243] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
244] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
245] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
246] 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.
247] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
248] 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
249] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
250] 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
251] 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.
252] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
253] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
254] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
255] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
256] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
257] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
258] 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.
259] 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.
260] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
261] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
262] 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.
263] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
264] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
265] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
266] 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.
267] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
268] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
269] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
270] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
271] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
272] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
273] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
274] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
275] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
276] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
277] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
278] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
279] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
280] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
281] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
282] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
283] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
284] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
285] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
286] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
287] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
288] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
289] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
290] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
291] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
292] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
293] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
294] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
295] 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
296] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
297] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
298] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
299] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
300] 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.
301] 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)
302] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
303] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
304] 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)
305] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
306] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
307] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
308] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
309] 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.
310] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
311] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
312] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
313] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
314] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
315] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
316] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
317] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
318] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
319] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
320] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
322] 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)
323] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
324] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
325] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
326] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
327] 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)
328] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
329] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
330] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
331] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
332] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
333] 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.
334] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
335] 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
336] 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.
337] 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.
338] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
339] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
340] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
341] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
342] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
343] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
344] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
345] 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.
346] 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.
347] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
348] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
349] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
350] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
351] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
352] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
353] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
354] 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)
355] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
356] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
357] 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
358] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
359] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
360] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
361] 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
362] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
363] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
364] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
365] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
366] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
367] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
368] 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.
369] 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)
370] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
371] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
372] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
373] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
374] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
375] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
376] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
377] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
378] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
379] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
380] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
381] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
382] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
383] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
384] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
385] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
386] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
387] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
388] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
389] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
390] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
391] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
392] 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)
393] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
394] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
395] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
396] 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.
397] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
398] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
399] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
400] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
401] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
402] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
403] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
404] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
405] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
406] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
407] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
408] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
409] 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
410] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
411] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
412] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
413] 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)
414] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
415] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
416] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
417] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
418] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
419] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
420] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
421] 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.
422] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
423] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
424] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
425] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
426] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
427] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
428] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
429] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
430] 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.
431] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
432] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
433] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
434] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
435] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
436] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
437] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
438] 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.
439] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
440] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
441] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
442] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
443] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
444] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
445] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
446] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
447] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
448] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
449] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
450] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
451] 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
452] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
453] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
454] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
455] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
456] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
457] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
458] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
459] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
460] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
461] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
462] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
463] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
464] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
465] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
466] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
467] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
468] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
469] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
470] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
471] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
472] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
473] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
474] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
475] 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
476] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
477] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
478] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
479] 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.
480] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
481] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
482] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
483] 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
484] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
485] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
486] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
487] 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
488] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
489] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
490] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
491] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
492] 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
493] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
494] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
495] 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
496] 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.
497] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
498] 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.
499] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
500] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
501] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
502] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
503] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
504] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
505] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
506] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
507] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
508] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
509] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
510] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
511] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
512] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
513] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
514] 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.
515] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
516] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
517] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
518] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
519] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
520] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
521] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
522] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
523] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
524] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
525] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
526] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
527] 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.
528] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
529] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
530] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
531] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
532] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
533] 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
534] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
535] 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.
536] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
537] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
538] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
539] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
540] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
541] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
542] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
543] 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
544] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
545] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
546] 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.
547] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
548] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
549] 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 .
550] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
551] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
552] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
553] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
554] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
555] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
556] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
557] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
558] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
559] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
560] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
561] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
562] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
563] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
564] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
565] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
566] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
567] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
568] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
569] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
570] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
571] 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
572] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
573] 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)
574] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
575] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
576] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
577] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
578] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
579] 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.
580] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
581] 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.
582] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
583] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
584] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
585] 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.
586] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
587] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
588] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
589] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
590] 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)
591] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
592] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
593] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
594] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
595] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
596] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
597] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
598] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
599] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
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