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1] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
2] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
3] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
4] 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.
5] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
6] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
7] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
8] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
9] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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10] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
11] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
12] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
13] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
14] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
15] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
16] 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
17] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
18] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
19] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
20] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
21] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
22] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
23] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
24] 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)
25] 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
26] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
27] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
28] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
29] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
30] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
31] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
32] 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)
33] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
34] 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
35] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
36] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
37] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
39] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
40] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
41] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
42] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
43] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
44] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
45] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
46] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
47] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
48] 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)
49] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
50] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
51] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
52] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
53] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
54] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
55] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
56] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
57] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
58] 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
59] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
60] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
61] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
62] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
63] 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
64] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
65] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
66] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
67] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
68] 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.
69] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
70] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
71] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
72] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
73] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
74] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
75] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
76] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
77] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
78] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
79] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
80] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
81] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
82] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
83] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
84] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
85] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
86] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
87] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
88] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
89] 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.
90] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
91] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
92] 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)
93] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
94] 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
95] 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.
96] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
97] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
98] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
99] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
100] 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.
101] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
102] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
103] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
104] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
105] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
106] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
107] 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]
108] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
109] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
110] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
111] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
112] 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)
113] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
114] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
115] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
116] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
117] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
118] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
119] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
120] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
121] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
122] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
123] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
124] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
125] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
126] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
127] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
128] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
129] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
130] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
131] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
132] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
133] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
134] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
135] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
136] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
137] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
138] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
139] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
140] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
141] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
142] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
143] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
144] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
145] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
146] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
147] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
148] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
149] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
150] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
151] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
152] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
153] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
154] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
155] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
156] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
157] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
158] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
160] 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
161] 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)
162] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
163] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
164] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
165] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
166] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
167] 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
168] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
169] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
170] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
171] 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)
172] 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
173] 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)
174] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
175] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
176] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
177] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
178] 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.
179] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
180] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
181] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
182] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
183] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
184] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
185] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
186] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
187] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
188] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
189] 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
190] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
191] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
192] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
193] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
194] 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.
195] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
196] 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)
197] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
198] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
199] 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.
200] 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.
201] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
202] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
203] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
204] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
205] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
206] 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
207] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
208] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
209] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
210] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
211] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
212] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
213] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
214] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
215] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
216] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
217] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
218] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
219] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
220] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
221] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
222] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
223] 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
224] 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
225] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
226] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
227] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
228] 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
229] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
230] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
231] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
232] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
233] 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.
234] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
235] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
236] 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).
237] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
238] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
239] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
240] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
241] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
242] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
243] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
244] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
245] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
246] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
247] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
248] 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.
249] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
250] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
251] 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.
252] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
253] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
254] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
255] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
256] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
257] 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)
258] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
259] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
260] 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.
261] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
262] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
263] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
264] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
265] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
266] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
267] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
268] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
269] 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.
270] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
271] 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
272] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
273] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
274] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
275] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
276] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
277] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
278] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
279] 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.
280] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
281] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
282] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
283] 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)
284] 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.
285] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
286] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
287] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
288] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
289] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
290] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
291] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
292] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
293] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
294] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
295] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
296] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
297] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
298] 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.
299] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
300] 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
301] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
302] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
303] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
304] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
305] 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)
306] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
307] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
308] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
309] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
310] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
311] 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
312] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
313] 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)
314] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
315] 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.
316] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
317] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
318] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
319] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
320] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
321] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
322] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
323] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
324] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
325] 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.
326] 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
327] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
328] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
329] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
330] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
331] 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.
332] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
333] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
334] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
335] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
336] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
337] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
338] 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
339] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
340] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
341] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
342] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
343] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
344] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
345] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
346] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
347] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
348] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
349] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
350] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
351] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
352] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
353] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
354] 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.
355] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
356] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
357] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
358] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
359] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
360] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
361] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
362] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
363] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
364] 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.
365] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
366] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
367] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
368] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
369] 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.”
370] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
371] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
372] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
373] 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
374] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
375] 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.
376] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
377] 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
378] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
379] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
380] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
381] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
382] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
383] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
384] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
385] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
386] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
387] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
388] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
389] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
390] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
391] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
392] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
393] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
394] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
395] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
396] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
397] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
398] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
399] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
400] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
401] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
402] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
403] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
404] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
405] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
406] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
407] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
408] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
409] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
410] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
411] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
412] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
413] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
414] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
415] 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.
416] 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.
417] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
418] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
419] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
420] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
421] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
422] 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.
423] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
424] 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)
425] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
426] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
427] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
428] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
429] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
430] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
431] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
432] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
433] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
434] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
435] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
436] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
437] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
438] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
439] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
440] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
441] 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
442] 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.
443] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
444] 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.
445] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
446] 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.
447] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
448] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
449] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
450] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
451] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
452] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
453] 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
454] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
455] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
456] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
457] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
458] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
459] 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
460] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
461] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
462] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
463] 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
464] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
465] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
466] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
467] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
469] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
470] 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)
471] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
472] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
473] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
474] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
475] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
476] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
477] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
478] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
479] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
480] 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.
481] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
482] 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.
483] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
484] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
485] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
486] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
487] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
488] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
489] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
490] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
491] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
492] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
493] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
494] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
495] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
496] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
497] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
498] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
499] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
500] 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
501] 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
502] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
503] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
504] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
505] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
506] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
507] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
508] 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
509] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
510] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
511] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
512] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
513] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
514] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
515] 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)
516] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
517] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
518] 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.
519] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
520] 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]
521] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
522] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
523] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
524] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
525] 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
526] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
527] 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
528] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
529] 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)
530] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
531] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
532] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
533] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
534] 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.
535] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
536] 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.
537] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
538] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
539] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
540] 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
541] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
542] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
543] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
544] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
545] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
546] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
547] 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
548] 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.
549] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
550] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
551] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
552] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
553] 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
554] 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)
555] 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.
556] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
557] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
558] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
559] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
560] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
561] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
562] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
563] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
564] 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.
565] 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
566] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
567] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
568] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
569] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
570] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
571] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
572] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
573] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
574] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
575] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
576] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
577] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
578] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
579] 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
580] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
581] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
582] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
583] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
584] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
585] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
586] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
587] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
588] 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.
589] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
590] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
591] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
592] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
593] 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)
594] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
595] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
596] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
597] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
598] 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)
599] 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
600] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry