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1] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
2] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
3] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
4] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
5] 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
6] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
7] 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)
8] 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)
9] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
10] 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)
11] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
12] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
13] 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.
14] 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)
15] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
16] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
17] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
18] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
19] 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
20] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
21] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
22] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
23] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
24] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
25] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
26] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
27] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
28] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
29] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
30] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
31] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
32] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
33] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
34] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
35] 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.
36] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
37] 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.
38] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
39] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
40] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
41] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
42] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
43] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
44] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
45] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
46] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
47] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
48] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
49] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
50] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
51] 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.
52] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
53] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
54] 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.
55] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
56] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
57] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
58] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
59] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
60] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
61] 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
62] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
63] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
64] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
65] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
66] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
67] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
68] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
69] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
70] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
71] 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.”
72] 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.
73] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
74] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
75] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
76] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
77] 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.
78] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
79] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
80] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
81] 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.
82] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
83] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
84] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
85] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
86] 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
87] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
88] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
89] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
90] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
91] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
92] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
93] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
94] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
95] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
96] 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).
97] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
98] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
99] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
100] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
101] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
102] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
103] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
104] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
105] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
106] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
107] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
108] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
109] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
110] 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
111] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
112] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
113] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
114] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
115] 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.
116] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
117] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
118] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
119] 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
120] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
121] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
122] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
123] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
124] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
125] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
126] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
127] 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.
128] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
129] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
130] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
131] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
132] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
133] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
134] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
135] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
136] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
137] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
138] 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
139] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
140] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
141] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
142] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
143] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
144] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
145] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
146] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
147] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
148] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
149] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
150] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
151] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
152] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
153] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
154] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
155] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
156] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
157] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
158] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
159] 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.
160] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
161] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
162] 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.
163] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
164] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
165] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
166] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
167] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
168] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
169] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
170] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
171] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
172] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
173] 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.
174] 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)
175] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
176] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
177] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
178] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
179] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
180] 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.
181] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
182] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
183] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
184] 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
185] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
186] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
187] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
188] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
189] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
190] 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)
191] 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
192] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
193] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
194] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
195] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
196] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
197] 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.
198] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
199] 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)
200] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
201] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
202] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
203] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
204] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
205] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
206] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
207] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
208] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
209] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
210] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
211] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
212] 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)
213] 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
214] 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.
215] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
216] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
217] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
218] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
219] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
220] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
221] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
222] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
223] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
224] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
225] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
226] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
227] 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.
228] 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
229] 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
230] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
231] 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.
232] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
233] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
234] 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)
235] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
236] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
237] 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.
238] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
239] 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.
240] 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
241] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
242] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
243] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
244] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
245] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
246] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
247] 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
248] 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.
249] 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.
250] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
251] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
252] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
253] 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.
254] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
255] 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)
256] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
257] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
258] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
259] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
260] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
261] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
262] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
263] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
264] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
265] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
266] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
267] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
268] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
269] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
270] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
271] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
272] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
273] 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
274] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
275] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
276] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
277] 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.
278] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
279] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
280] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
281] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
282] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
283] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
284] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
285] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
286] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
287] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
288] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
289] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
290] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
291] 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
292] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
293] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
294] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
295] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
296] 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
297] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
298] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
299] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
300] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
301] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
302] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
303] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
304] 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.
305] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
306] 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.
307] 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
308] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
309] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
310] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
311] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
312] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
313] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
314] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
315] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
316] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
317] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
318] 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.
319] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
320] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
321] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
322] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
323] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
324] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
325] 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.
326] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
327] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
328] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
329] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
330] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
331] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
332] 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
333] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
334] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
335] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
336] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
337] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
338] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
339] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
340] 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
341] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
342] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
343] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] 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)
345] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
346] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
347] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
348] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
349] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
350] 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)
351] 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)
352] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
353] 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).
354] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
355] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
356] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
357] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
358] 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)
359] 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.
360] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
361] 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
362] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
363] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
364] 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.
365] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
366] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
367] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
368] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
369] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
370] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
371] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
372] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
373] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
374] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
375] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
376] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
377] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
378] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
379] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
380] 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)
381] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
382] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
383] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
384] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
385] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
386] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
387] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
388] 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
389] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
390] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
391] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
392] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
393] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
394] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
395] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
396] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
397] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
398] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
399] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
400] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
401] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
402] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
403] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
404] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
405] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
406] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
407] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
408] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
409] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
410] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
411] 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
412] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
413] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
414] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
415] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
416] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
417] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
418] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
419] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
420] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
421] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
422] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
423] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
424] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
425] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
426] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
427] 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
428] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
429] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
430] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
431] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
432] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
433] 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
434] 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.
435] 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
436] 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
437] 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.
438] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
439] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
440] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
441] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
442] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
443] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
444] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
445] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
446] 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)
447] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
448] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
449] 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.
450] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
451] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
452] 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.
453] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
454] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
455] 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
456] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
457] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
458] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
459] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
460] 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
461] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
462] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
463] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
464] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
465] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
466] 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)
467] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
468] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
469] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
470] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
471] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
472] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
473] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
474] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
475] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
476] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
477] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
478] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
479] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
480] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
481] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
482] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
483] 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
484] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
485] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
486] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
487] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
488] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
489] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
490] 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)
491] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
492] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
493] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
494] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
495] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
496] 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.
497] 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
498] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
499] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
500] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
501] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
502] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
503] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
504] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
505] 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
506] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
507] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
508] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
509] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
510] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
511] Commonsense is not so common.
512] 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.
513] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
514] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
515] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
516] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
517] 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
518] 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
519] 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.
520] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
521] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
522] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
523] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
524] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
525] 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)
526] In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen.
527] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
528] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
529] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
530] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
531] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
532] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
533] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
534] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
535] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
536] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
538] 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
539] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
540] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
541] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
542] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
543] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
544] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
545] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
546] 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.
547] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
548] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
549] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
550] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
551] 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.
552] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
553] 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.
554] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
555] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
556] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
557] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
558] 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)
559] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
560] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
561] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
562] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
563] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
564] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
565] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
566] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
567] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
568] 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)
569] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
570] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
571] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
572] 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
573] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
574] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
575] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
576] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
577] 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.
578] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
579] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
580] 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.
581] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
582] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
583] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
584] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
585] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
586] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
587] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
588] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
589] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
590] Commonsense is not so common.
591] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
592] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
593] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
594] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
595] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
596] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
597] 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.
598] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
599] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
600] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.