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1] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
2] 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
3] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
4] 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
5] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
6] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
7] 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
8] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
9] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
10] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
11] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
12] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
13] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
14] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15] 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.
16] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
17] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
18] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
19] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
20] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
21] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
22] 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)
23] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
24] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
25] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
26] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
27] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
28] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
29] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
30] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
31] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
32] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
33] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
34] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
35] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
36] 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.
37] 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.
38] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
39] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
40] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
41] 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.
42] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
43] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
44] 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.
45] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
46] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
47] 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.
48] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
49] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
50] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
51] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
52] 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.
53] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
54] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
55] 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
56] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
57] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
58] 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
59] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
60] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
61] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
62] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
63] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
64] 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
65] 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.
66] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
67] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
68] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
69] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
70] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
71] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
72] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
73] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
74] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
75] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
76] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
77] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
78] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
79] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
80] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
81] 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)
82] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
83] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
84] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
85] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
86] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
87] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
88] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
89] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
90] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
91] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
92] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
93] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
94] 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]
95] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
96] Commonsense is not so common.
97] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
98] 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
99] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
100] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
101] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
102] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
103] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
104] 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
105] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
106] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
107] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
108] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
109] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
110] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
111] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
112] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
113] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
114] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
115] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
116] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
117] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
118] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
119] Commonsense is not so common.
120] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
121] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
122] 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.
123] 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
124] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
125] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
126] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
127] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
128] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
129] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
130] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
131] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
132] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
133] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
134] 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.
135] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
136] 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)
137] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
138] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
139] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
140] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
141] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
142] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
143] 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.
144] 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
145] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
146] 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
147] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
148] 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)
149] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
150] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
151] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
152] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
153] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
154] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
155] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
156] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
157] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
158] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
159] 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.”
160] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
161] 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.
162] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
163] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
164] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
165] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
166] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
167] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
168] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
169] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
170] 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.
171] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
172] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
173] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
174] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
175] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
176] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
177] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
178] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
179] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
180] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
181] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
182] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
183] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
184] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
185] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
186] 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
187] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
188] 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
189] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
190] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
191] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
192] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
193] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
194] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
195] 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
196] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
197] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
198] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
199] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
200] 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
201] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
202] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
203] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
204] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
205] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
206] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
207] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
208] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
209] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
210] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
212] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
213] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
214] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
215] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
216] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
217] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
218] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
219] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
220] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
221] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
222] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
223] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
224] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
225] 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
226] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
227] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
228] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
229] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
230] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
231] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
232] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
233] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
234] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
235] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
236] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
237] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
238] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
239] 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.”
240] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
241] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
242] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
243] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
244] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
245] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
246] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
247] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
248] 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.
249] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
250] 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.
251] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
252] 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).
253] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
254] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
255] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
256] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
257] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
258] 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
259] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
260] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
261] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
262] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
263] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
264] 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)
265] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
266] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
267] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
268] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
269] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
270] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
271] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
272] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
273] 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.
274] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
275] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
276] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
277] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
278] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
279] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
280] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
281] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
282] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
283] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
284] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
285] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
286] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
287] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
288] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
289] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
290] 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
291] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
292] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
293] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
294] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
295] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
296] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
297] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
298] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
299] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
300] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
301] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
302] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
303] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
304] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
305] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
306] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
307] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
308] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
309] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
310] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
311] 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)
312] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
313] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
314] 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.
315] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
316] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
317] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
318] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
319] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
320] 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.
321] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
322] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
323] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
324] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
325] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
326] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
327] 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.
328] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
329] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
330] 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.
331] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
332] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
333] 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.
334] 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.
335] 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.
336] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
337] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
338] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
339] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
340] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
341] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
342] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
343] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
344] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
345] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
346] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
347] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
348] 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.
349] 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.
350] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
351] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
352] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
353] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
354] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
355] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
356] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
357] 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)
358] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
359] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
360] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
361] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
362] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
363] 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.
364] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
365] 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.
366] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
367] 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.
368] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
369] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
370] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
371] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
372] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
373] 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.
374] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
375] 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
376] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
377] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
378] 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)
379] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
380] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
381] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
382] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
383] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
384] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
385] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
386] 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.
387] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
388] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
389] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
390] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
391] 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.
392] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
393] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
394] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
395] 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.
396] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
397] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
398] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
399] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
400] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
401] 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)
402] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
403] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
404] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
405] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
406] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
407] 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.
408] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
409] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
410] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
411] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
412] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
413] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
414] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
415] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
416] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
417] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
418] 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
419] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
420] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
421] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
422] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
423] 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
424] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
425] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
426] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
427] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
428] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
429] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
430] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
431] 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.
432] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
433] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
434] 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
435] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
436] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
437] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
438] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
439] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
440] 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
441] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
442] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
443] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
444] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
445] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
446] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
447] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
448] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
449] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
450] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
451] 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.
452] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
453] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
454] 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
455] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
456] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
457] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
458] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
459] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
460] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
461] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
462] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
463] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
464] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
465] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
466] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
467] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
468] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
469] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
470] 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
471] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
472] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
473] 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)
474] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
475] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
476] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
477] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
478] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
479] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
480] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
481] 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
482] 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
483] 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)
484] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
485] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
486] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
487] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
488] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
489] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
490] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
491] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
492] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
493] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
494] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
495] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
496] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
497] 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
498] 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.
499] 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
500] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
501] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
502] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
503] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
504] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
505] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
506] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
507] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
508] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
509] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
510] 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)
511] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
512] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
513] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
514] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
515] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
516] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
517] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
518] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
519] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
520] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
521] 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
522] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
523] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
524] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
525] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
526] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
527] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
528] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
529] 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
530] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
531] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
532] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
533] 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)
534] 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
535] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
536] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
537] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
538] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
539] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
540] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
541] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
542] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
543] 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
544] 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]
545] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
546] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
547] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
548] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
549] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
550] 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)
551] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
552] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
553] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
554] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
555] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
556] 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
557] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
558] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
559] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
560] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
561] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
562] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
563] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
564] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
565] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
566] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
567] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
568] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
569] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
570] 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 .
571] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
572] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
573] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
574] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
575] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
576] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
577] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
578] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
579] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
581] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
582] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
583] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
584] 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.
585] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
586] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
587] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
588] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
589] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
590] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
591] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
592] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
593] 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.
594] 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
595] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
596] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
597] 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
598] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
599] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
600] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.