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1] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
2] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
3] 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)
4] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
5] 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
6] 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
7] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
8] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
9] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
10] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
11] 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
12] 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.
13] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
14] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
15] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
16] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
17] 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
18] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
19] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
20] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
21] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
22] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
23] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
24] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
25] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
26] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
27] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
28] 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
29] 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
30] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
31] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
32] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
33] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
34] 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
35] 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.
36] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
37] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
38] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
39] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
40] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
41] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
42] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
43] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
44] 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)
45] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
46] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
47] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
48] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
49] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
50] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
51] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
52] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
53] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
54] 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.
55] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
56] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
57] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
58] 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.
59] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
60] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
61] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
62] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
63] 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.
64] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
65] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
66] 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
67] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
68] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
69] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
70] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
71] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
72] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
73] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
74] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
75] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
76] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
77] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
78] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
79] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
80] 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.
81] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
82] 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.
83] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
84] 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.
85] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
86] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
87] 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
88] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
89] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
90] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
91] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
92] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
93] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
94] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
95] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
96] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
97] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
98] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
99] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
100] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
101] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
102] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
103] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
104] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
105] 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.
106] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
107] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
108] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
109] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
110] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
111] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
112] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
113] 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.
114] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
115] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
116] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
117] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
118] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
119] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
120] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
121] 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)
122] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
123] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
124] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
125] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
126] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
127] 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)
128] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
129] 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
130] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
131] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
132] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
133] 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
134] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
135] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
136] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
137] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
138] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
139] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
140] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
141] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
142] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
143] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
144] 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.
145] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
146] 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)
147] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
148] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
149] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
150] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
151] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
152] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
153] 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.
154] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
155] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
156] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
157] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
158] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
159] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
160] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
161] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
162] 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
163] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
164] 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.
165] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
166] 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.
167] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
168] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
169] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
170] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
171] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
172] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
173] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
174] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
175] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
176] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
177] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
178] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
179] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
180] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
181] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
182] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
183] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
184] 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.
185] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
186] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
187] 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.
188] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
189] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
190] 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)
191] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
192] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
193] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
194] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
195] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
196] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
197] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
198] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
199] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
200] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
201] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
202] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
203] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
204] 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.
205] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
206] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
207] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
208] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
209] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
210] 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
211] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
212] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
213] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
214] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
215] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
216] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
217] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
218] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
219] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
220] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
221] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
222] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
223] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
224] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
225] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
226] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
227] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
228] 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.
229] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
230] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
231] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
232] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
233] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
234] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
235] 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.
236] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
237] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
238] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
239] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
240] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
241] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
242] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
243] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
244] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
245] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
246] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
247] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
248] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
249] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
250] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
251] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
252] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
253] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
254] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
255] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
257] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
258] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
259] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
260] 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)
261] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
262] 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.
263] 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.
264] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
265] 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.
266] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
267] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
268] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
269] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
270] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
271] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
272] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
273] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
274] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
275] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
276] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
277] 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.
278] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
279] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
280] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
281] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
282] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
283] 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.
284] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
285] 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.
286] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
287] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
288] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
289] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
290] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
291] 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.
292] 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
293] 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)
294] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
295] 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.
296] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
297] 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
298] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
299] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
300] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
301] 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
302] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
303] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
304] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
305] 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
306] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
307] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
308] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
309] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
310] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
311] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
312] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
313] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
314] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
315] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
316] 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
317] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
318] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
319] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
320] 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)
321] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
322] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
323] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
324] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
325] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
326] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
327] 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.
328] 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
329] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
330] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
331] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
332] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
333] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
334] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
335] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
336] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
337] 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.”
338] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
339] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
340] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
341] 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.
342] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
343] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
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] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
346] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
347] 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
348] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
349] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
350] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
351] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
352] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
353] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
354] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
355] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
356] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
357] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
358] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
359] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
360] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
361] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
362] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
363] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
364] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
365] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
366] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
367] 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)
368] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
369] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
370] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
371] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
372] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
373] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
374] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
375] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
376] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
377] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
378] 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
379] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
380] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
381] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
382] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
383] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
384] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
385] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
386] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
387] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
388] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
389] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
390] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
391] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
392] 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
393] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
394] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
395] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
396] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
397] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
398] 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.
399] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
400] 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.
401] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
402] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
403] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
404] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
405] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
406] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
407] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
408] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
409] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
410] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
411] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
412] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
413] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
414] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
415] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
416] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
417] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
418] 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.
419] 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.
420] 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
421] 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
422] 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
423] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
424] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
425] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
426] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
427] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
428] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
429] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
430] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
431] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
432] 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)
433] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
434] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
435] Commonsense is not so common.
436] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
437] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
438] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
439] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
440] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
441] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
442] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
443] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
444] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
445] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
446] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
447] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
448] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
449] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
450] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
451] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
452] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
453] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
454] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
455] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
456] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
457] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
458] 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
459] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
460] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
461] 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.
462] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
463] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
464] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
465] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
466] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
467] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
468] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
469] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
470] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
471] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
472] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
473] 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.
474] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
475] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
476] 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.
477] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
478] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
479] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
480] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
481] 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
482] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
483] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
484] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
485] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
486] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
487] 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
488] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
489] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
490] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
491] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
492] 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.
493] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
494] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
495] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
496] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
497] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
498] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
499] 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
500] 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.
501] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
502] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
503] 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.
504] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
505] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
506] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
507] 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
508] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
509] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
510] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
511] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
512] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
513] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
514] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
515] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
516] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
517] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
518] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
519] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
520] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
521] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
522] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
523] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
524] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
525] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
526] 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
527] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
528] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
529] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
530] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
531] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
532] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
533] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
534] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
535] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
536] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
537] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
538] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
539] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
540] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
541] 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)
542] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
543] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
544] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
545] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
546] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
547] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
548] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
549] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
550] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
551] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
552] 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
553] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
554] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
555] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
556] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
557] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
558] 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
559] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
560] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
561] 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).
562] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
563] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
564] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
565] 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
566] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
567] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
568] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
569] 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)
570] 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.
571] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
572] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
573] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
574] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
575] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
576] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
577] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
578] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
579] 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
580] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
581] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
582] 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.
583] 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.
584] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
585] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
586] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
587] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
588] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
589] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
590] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
591] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
592] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
593] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
594] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
595] 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.
596] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
597] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
598] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
599] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
600] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.