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1] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
2] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
3] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
4] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
5] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
6] 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)
7] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
8] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
9] 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.
10] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
11] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
12] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
13] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
14] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
15] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
16] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
17] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
18] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
19] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
20] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
21] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
22] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
23] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
24] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
25] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
26] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
27] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
28] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
29] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
30] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
31] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
32] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
33] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
34] 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.
35] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
36] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
37] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
38] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
39] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
40] 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.
41] 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
42] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
43] 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.
44] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
45] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
46] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
47] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
49] 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.
50] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
51] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
52] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
53] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
54] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
55] 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)
56] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
57] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
58] 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
59] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
60] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
61] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
62] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
63] 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
64] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
65] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
66] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
67] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
68] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
69] 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.”
70] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
71] 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
72] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
73] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
74] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
75] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
76] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
77] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
78] 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
79] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
80] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
81] 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)
82] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
83] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
84] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
85] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
86] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
87] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
88] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
89] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
90] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
91] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
92] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
93] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
94] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
95] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
96] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
97] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
98] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
99] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
100] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
101] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
102] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
103] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
104] 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.
105] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
106] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
107] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
108] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
109] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
110] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
111] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
112] 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
113] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
114] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
115] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
116] 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.
117] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
118] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
119] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
120] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
121] 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
122] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
123] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
124] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
125] 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.
126] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
127] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
128] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
129] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
130] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
131] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
132] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
133] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
134] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
135] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
136] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
137] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
138] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
139] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
140] 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.
141] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
142] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
143] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
144] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
145] 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]
146] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
147] 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.
148] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
149] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
150] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
151] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
152] 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)
153] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
154] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
155] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
156] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
157] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
158] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
159] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
160] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
161] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
162] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
163] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
164] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
165] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
166] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
167] 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.
168] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
169] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
170] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
171] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
172] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
173] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
174] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
175] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
176] 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.
177] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
178] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
179] 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)
180] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
181] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
182] 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)
183] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
184] 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).
185] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
186] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
187] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
188] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
189] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
190] 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
191] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
192] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
193] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
194] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
195] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
196] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
197] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
198] 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)
199] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
200] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
201] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
202] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
203] 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
204] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
205] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
206] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
207] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
208] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
209] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
210] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
211] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
212] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
213] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
214] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
215] 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
216] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
217] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
218] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
219] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
220] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
221] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
222] 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)
223] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
224] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
225] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
226] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
227] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
228] 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.
229] 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)
230] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
231] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
232] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
233] 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
234] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
235] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
236] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
237] 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.
238] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
239] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
240] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
241] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
242] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
243] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
244] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
245] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
246] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
247] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
248] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
249] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
250] 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.
251] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
252] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
253] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
254] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
255] 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
256] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
257] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
258] 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
259] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
260] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
261] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
262] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
263] 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
264] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
265] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
266] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
267] 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.
268] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
269] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
270] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
271] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
272] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
273] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
274] 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)
275] 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
276] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
277] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
278] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
279] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
280] 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.
281] 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
282] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
283] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
284] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
285] 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)
286] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
287] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
288] 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)
289] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
290] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
291] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
292] 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.
293] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
294] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
295] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
296] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
297] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
298] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
299] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
300] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
301] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
302] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
303] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
304] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
305] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
306] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
307] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
308] 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.
309] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
310] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
311] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
312] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
313] 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.
314] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
315] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
316] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
317] 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
318] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
319] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
320] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
321] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
322] 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.
323] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
324] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
325] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
326] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
327] 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
328] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
329] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
330] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
331] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
332] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
333] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
334] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
335] 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.
336] 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.
337] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
338] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
339] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
340] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
341] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
342] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
343] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
344] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
345] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
346] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
347] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
348] 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.
349] 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.
350] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
351] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
352] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
353] 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.
354] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
355] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
356] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
357] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
358] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
359] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
360] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
361] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
362] 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
363] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
364] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
365] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
366] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
367] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
368] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
369] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
370] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
371] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
372] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
373] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
374] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
375] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
376] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
377] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
378] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
379] 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
380] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
381] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
382] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
383] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
384] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
385] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
386] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
387] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
388] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
389] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
390] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
391] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
392] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
393] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
394] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
395] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
396] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
397] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
398] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
399] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
400] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
401] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
402] 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.
403] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
404] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
405] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
406] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
407] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
408] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
409] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
410] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
411] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
412] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
413] 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.
414] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
415] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
416] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
417] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
418] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
419] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
420] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
421] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
422] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
423] 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
424] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
425] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
426] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
427] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
428] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
429] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
430] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
431] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
432] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
433] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
434] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
435] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
436] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
437] 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.
438] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
439] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
440] 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
441] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
442] 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.
443] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
444] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
445] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
446] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
447] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
448] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
449] 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.
450] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
451] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
452] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
453] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
454] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
455] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
456] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
457] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
458] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
459] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
460] 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
461] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
462] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
463] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
464] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
465] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
466] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
467] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
468] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
469] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
470] 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
471] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
472] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
473] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
474] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
475] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
476] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
477] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
478] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
479] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
480] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
481] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
482] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
483] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
484] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
485] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
486] 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.”
487] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
488] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
489] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
490] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
491] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
492] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
493] 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.
494] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
495] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
496] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
497] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
498] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
499] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
500] 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
501] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
502] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
503] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
504] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
505] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
506] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
507] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
508] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
509] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
510] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
511] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
512] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
513] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
514] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
515] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
516] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
517] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
518] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
519] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
521] 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)
522] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
523] 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
524] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
525] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
526] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
527] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
528] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
529] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
530] 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
531] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
532] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
533] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
534] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
535] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
536] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
537] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
538] 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.
539] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
540] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
541] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
542] 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.
543] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
544] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
545] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
546] 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.
547] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
548] 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.
549] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
550] 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
551] 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
552] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
553] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
554] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
555] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
556] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
557] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
558] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
559] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
560] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
561] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
562] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
563] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
564] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
565] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
566] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
567] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
568] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
569] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
570] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
571] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
572] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
573] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
574] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
575] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
576] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
577] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
578] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
579] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
580] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
581] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
582] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
583] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
584] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
585] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
586] 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.
587] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
588] 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
589] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
590] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
591] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
592] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
593] 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.
594] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
595] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
596] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
597] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
598] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
599] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
600] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.