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1] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
2] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
3] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
4] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
5] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
6] 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.
7] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
8] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
9] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
10] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
11] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
12] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
13] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
14] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
15] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
16] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
17] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
18] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
19] 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.
20] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
22] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
23] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
24] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
25] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
26] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
27] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
28] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
29] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
30] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
31] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
32] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
33] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
34] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
35] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
36] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
37] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
38] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
39] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
40] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
41] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
42] 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)
43] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
44] 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
45] 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.
46] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
47] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
48] 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
49] 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.
50] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
51] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
52] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
53] 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.
54] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
55] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
56] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
57] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
58] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
59] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
60] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
61] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
62] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
63] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
64] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
65] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
66] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
67] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
68] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
69] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
70] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
71] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
72] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
73] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
74] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
75] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
76] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
77] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
78] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
79] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
80] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
81] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
82] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
83] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
84] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
85] 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
86] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
87] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
88] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
89] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
90] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
91] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
92] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
93] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
94] 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.
95] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
96] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
97] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
98] 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
99] 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.
100] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
101] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
102] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
103] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
104] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
105] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
106] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
107] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
108] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
109] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
110] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
111] 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.
112] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
113] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
114] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
115] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
116] 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)
117] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
118] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
119] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
120] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
121] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
122] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
123] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
124] 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
125] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
126] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
127] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
128] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
129] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
130] 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)
131] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
132] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
133] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
134] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
135] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
136] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
137] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
138] 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)
139] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
140] 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 .
141] 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
142] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
143] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
144] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
145] 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
146] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
147] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
148] 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
149] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
150] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
151] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
152] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
153] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
154] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
155] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
156] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
157] 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
158] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
159] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
160] 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
161] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
162] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
163] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
164] 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
165] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
166] 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
167] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
168] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
169] 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).
170] 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
171] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
172] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
173] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
174] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
175] 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.
176] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
177] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
178] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
179] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
180] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
181] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
182] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
183] 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]
184] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
185] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
186] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
187] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
188] 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
189] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
190] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
191] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
192] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
193] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
194] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
195] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
196] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
197] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
198] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
199] 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.
200] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
201] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
202] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
203] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
204] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
205] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
206] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
207] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
208] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
209] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
210] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
211] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
212] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
213] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
214] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
215] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
216] 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.
217] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
218] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
219] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
220] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
221] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
222] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
223] 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
224] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
225] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
226] 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.
227] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
228] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
229] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
230] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
231] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
232] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
233] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
234] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
235] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
236] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
237] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
238] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
239] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
240] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
241] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
242] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
243] 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
244] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
245] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
246] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
247] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
248] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
249] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
250] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
251] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
252] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
253] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
254] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
255] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
256] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
257] 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.
258] 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
259] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
260] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
261] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
262] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
263] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
264] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
265] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
266] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
267] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
268] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
269] 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.
270] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
271] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
272] 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.
273] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
274] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
275] 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
276] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
277] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
278] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
279] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
280] 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.
281] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
282] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
283] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
284] 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)
285] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
286] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
287] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
288] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
289] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
290] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
291] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
292] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
293] 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.
294] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
295] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
296] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
297] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
298] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
299] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
300] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
301] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
302] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
303] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
304] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
305] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
306] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
307] 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.
308] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
309] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
310] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
311] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
312] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
313] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
314] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
315] 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)
316] 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
317] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
318] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
319] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
320] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
321] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
322] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
323] 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.
324] 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
325] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
326] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
327] 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
328] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
329] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
330] 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.
331] 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
332] 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.
333] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
334] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
335] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
336] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
337] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
338] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
339] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
340] 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 .
341] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
342] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
343] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
344] 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.
345] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
347] 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.
348] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
349] 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.
350] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
351] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
352] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
353] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
354] 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
355] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
356] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
357] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
358] 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.
359] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
360] 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
361] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
362] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
363] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
364] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
365] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
366] 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
367] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
368] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
369] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
370] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
371] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
372] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
373] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
374] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
375] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
376] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
377] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
378] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
379] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
380] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
381] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
382] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
383] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
384] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
385] 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
386] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
387] 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.
388] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
389] 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
390] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
391] 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)
392] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
393] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
394] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
395] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
396] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
397] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
398] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
399] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
400] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
401] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
402] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
403] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
404] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
405] 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.
406] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
407] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
408] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
409] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
410] 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
411] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
412] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
413] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
414] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
415] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
416] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
417] 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.
418] 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)
419] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
420] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
421] 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.
422] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
423] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
424] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
425] 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.
426] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
427] 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
428] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
429] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
430] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
431] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
432] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
433] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
434] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
435] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
436] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
437] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
438] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
439] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
440] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
441] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
442] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
443] 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
444] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
445] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
446] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
447] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
448] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
449] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
450] 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.
451] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
452] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
453] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
454] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
455] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
456] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
457] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
458] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
459] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
460] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
461] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
462] 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
463] 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)
464] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
465] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
466] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
467] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
468] 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.
469] 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.
470] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
471] 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.
472] 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.
473] 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.
474] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
475] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
476] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
477] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
478] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
479] 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]
480] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
481] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
482] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
483] 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
484] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
485] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
486] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
487] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
488] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
489] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
490] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
491] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
492] 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
493] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
495] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
496] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
497] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
498] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
499] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
500] 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
501] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
502] 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
503] Commonsense is not so common.
504] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
505] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
506] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
507] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
508] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
509] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
510] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
511] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
512] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
513] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
514] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
515] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
516] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
517] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
518] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
519] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
520] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
521] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
522] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
523] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
524] 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.
525] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
526] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
527] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
528] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
529] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
530] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
531] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
532] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
533] 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
534] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
535] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
536] 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
537] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
538] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
539] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
540] 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
541] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
542] 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.
543] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
544] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
545] 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.
546] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
547] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
548] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
549] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
550] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
551] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
552] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
553] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
554] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
555] 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.
556] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
557] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
558] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
559] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
560] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
561] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
562] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
563] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
564] 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.
565] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
566] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
567] 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)
568] 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
569] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
570] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
571] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
572] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
573] 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.
574] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
575] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
576] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
577] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
578] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
579] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
580] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
581] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
582] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
583] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
584] 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.
585] 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.
586] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
587] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
588] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
589] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
590] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
591] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
592] 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
593] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
594] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
595] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
596] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
597] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
598] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
599] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
600] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin