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1] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
2] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
3] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
4] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
5] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
6] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
7] 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
8] 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.
9] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
10] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
11] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
12] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
13] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
14] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
15] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
16] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
17] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
18] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
19] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
20] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
21] 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)
22] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
23] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
24] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
25] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
26] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
27] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
28] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
29] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
30] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
31] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
32] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
33] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
34] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
35] 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.
36] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
37] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
38] 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)
39] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
40] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
41] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
42] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
43] 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
44] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
45] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
46] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
47] 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.
48] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
49] 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.
50] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
51] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
52] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
53] 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
54] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
55] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
56] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
57] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
58] 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.
59] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
60] 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)
61] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
62] 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.
63] 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]
64] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
65] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
66] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
67] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
68] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
69] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
70] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
71] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
72] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
73] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
74] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
75] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
76] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
77] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
78] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
79] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
80] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
81] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
82] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
83] 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.
84] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
85] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
86] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
87] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
88] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
89] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
90] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
91] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
92] 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
93] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
94] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
95] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
96] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
97] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
98] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
99] Commonsense is not so common.
100] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
101] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
102] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
103] 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.
104] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
105] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
106] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
107] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
108] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
109] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
110] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
111] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
112] 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).
113] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
114] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
115] 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)
116] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
117] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
118] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
119] 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
120] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
121] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
122] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
123] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
124] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
125] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
126] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
127] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
128] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
129] 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.
130] 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
131] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
132] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
133] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
134] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
135] 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
136] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
137] 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
138] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
139] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
140] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
141] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
142] 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
143] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
144] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
145] 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
146] 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.
147] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
148] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
149] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
150] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
151] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
152] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
153] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
154] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
155] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
156] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
157] 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
158] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
159] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
160] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
161] 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)
162] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
163] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
164] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
165] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
166] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
167] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
168] 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
169] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
170] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
171] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
172] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
173] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
174] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
175] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
176] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
177] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
178] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
179] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
180] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
181] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
182] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
183] 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
184] 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.
185] 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)
186] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
187] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
188] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
189] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
190] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
191] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
192] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
193] 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.
194] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
195] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
196] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
197] 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
198] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
199] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
200] 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)
201] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
202] 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.
203] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
204] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
205] 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
206] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
207] 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
208] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
209] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
210] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
211] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
212] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
213] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
214] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
215] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
216] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
217] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
218] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
219] 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
220] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
221] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
222] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
223] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
224] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
225] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
226] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
227] 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)
228] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
229] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
230] 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.
231] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
232] Commonsense is not so common.
233] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
234] 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.
235] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
236] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
237] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
238] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
239] 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.
240] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
241] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
242] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
243] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
244] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
245] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
246] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
247] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
248] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
249] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
250] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
251] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
252] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
253] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
254] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
255] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
256] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
257] 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.
258] 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.
259] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
260] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
261] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
262] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
263] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
264] 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
265] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
266] 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.
267] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
268] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
269] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
270] 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
271] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
272] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
273] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
274] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
275] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
276] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
277] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
278] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
279] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
280] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
281] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
282] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
283] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
284] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
285] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
286] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
287] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
288] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
289] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
290] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
291] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
292] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
293] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
294] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
295] 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
296] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
297] 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.
298] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
299] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
300] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
301] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
302] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
303] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
304] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
305] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
306] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
307] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
308] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
309] 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.
310] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
311] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
312] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
313] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
314] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
315] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
316] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
317] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
318] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
319] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
320] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
321] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
322] 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)
323] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
324] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
325] 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)
326] 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
327] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
328] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
329] 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
330] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
331] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
332] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
333] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
334] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
335] 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.
336] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
337] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
338] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
339] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
340] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
341] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
342] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
343] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
344] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
345] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
346] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
347] 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
348] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
349] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
350] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
351] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
352] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
353] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
354] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
355] 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.
356] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
357] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
358] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
359] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
360] 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)
361] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
362] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
363] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
364] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
365] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
366] 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.
367] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
368] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
369] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
370] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
371] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
372] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
373] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
374] 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.
375] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
376] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
377] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
378] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
379] 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.
380] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
381] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
382] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
383] 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
384] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
385] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
386] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
387] 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
388] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
389] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
390] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
391] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
392] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
393] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
394] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
395] 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
396] 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
397] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
398] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
399] 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
400] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
401] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
402] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
403] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
404] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
405] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
406] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
407] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
408] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
409] 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
410] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
411] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
412] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
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] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
415] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
416] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
417] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
418] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
419] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
420] 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.
421] 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)
422] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
423] 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.
424] 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)
425] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
426] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
427] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
428] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
429] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
430] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
431] 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.
432] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
433] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
434] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
435] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
436] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
437] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
438] 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
439] 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)
440] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
441] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
442] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
443] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
444] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
445] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
446] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
447] 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.
448] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
449] 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
450] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
451] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
452] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
453] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
454] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
455] 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)
456] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
457] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
458] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
459] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
460] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
461] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
462] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
463] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
464] 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.
465] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
466] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
467] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
468] 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.
469] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
470] 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)
471] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
472] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
473] 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.
474] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
475] 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)
476] 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
477] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
478] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
479] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
480] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
481] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
482] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
483] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
484] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
485] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
486] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
487] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
488] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
489] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
490] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
491] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
492] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
493] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
494] 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
495] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
496] 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).
497] 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)
498] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
499] 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.
500] 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.
501] 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.
502] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
503] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
504] 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)
505] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
506] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
507] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
508] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
509] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
510] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
511] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
512] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
513] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
514] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
515] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
516] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
517] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
518] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
519] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
520] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
521] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
522] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
523] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
524] 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.
525] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
526] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
527] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
528] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
529] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
530] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
531] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
532] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
533] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
534] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
535] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
536] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
537] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
538] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
539] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
540] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
541] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
542] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
543] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
544] 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
545] 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
546] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
547] 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.
548] 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.
549] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
550] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
551] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
552] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
553] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
554] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
555] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
556] 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.
557] 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)
558] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
559] 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
560] 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.
561] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
562] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
563] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
564] 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
565] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
566] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
567] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
568] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
569] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
570] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
571] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
572] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
573] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
574] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
575] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
576] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
577] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
578] 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.
579] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
580] 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)
581] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
582] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
583] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
584] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
585] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
586] 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).
587] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
588] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
589] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
590] 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.
591] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
592] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
593] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
594] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
595] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
597] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
598] 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.
599] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
600] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca