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1] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
2] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
3] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
4] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
5] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
6] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
7] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
8] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
9] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
10] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
11] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
12] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
13] 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
14] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
15] 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.
16] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
17] 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.
18] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
19] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
20] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
21] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
22] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
23] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
24] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
25] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
26] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
27] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
28] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
29] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
30] 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.
31] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
32] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
33] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
34] 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.
35] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
36] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
37] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
38] 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)
39] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
40] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
41] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
42] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
43] 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 .
44] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
45] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
46] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
47] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
48] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
49] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
50] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
51] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
52] 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)
53] 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)
54] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
55] 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)
56] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
57] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
58] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
59] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
60] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
61] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
62] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
63] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
64] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
65] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
66] 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.
67] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
68] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
69] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
70] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
71] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
72] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
73] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
74] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
75] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
76] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
77] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
78] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
79] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
80] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
81] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
82] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
83] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
84] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
85] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
86] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
87] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
88] 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.
89] 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
90] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
91] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
92] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
93] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
94] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
95] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
96] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
97] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
98] 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)
99] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
100] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
101] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
102] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
103] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
104] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
105] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
106] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
107] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
108] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
109] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
110] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
111] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
112] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
113] 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.
114] 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)
115] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
116] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
117] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
118] 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
119] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
120] 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.
121] 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
122] 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.
123] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
124] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
125] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
126] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
127] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
128] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
129] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
130] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
131] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
132] 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)
133] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
134] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
135] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
136] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
137] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
138] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
139] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
140] 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
141] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
142] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
143] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
144] 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.
145] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
146] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
147] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
148] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
149] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
150] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
151] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
152] 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.
153] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
154] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
155] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
156] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
157] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
158] 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.
159] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
160] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
161] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
162] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
163] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
164] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
165] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
166] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
167] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
168] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
169] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
170] 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
171] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
172] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
173] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
174] 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.
175] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
176] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
177] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
178] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
179] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
180] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
181] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
182] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
183] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
184] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
185] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
186] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
187] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
188] 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.
189] Commonsense is not so common.
190] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
191] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
192] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
193] 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
194] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
195] 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.”
196] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
197] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
198] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
199] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
200] 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
201] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
202] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
203] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
204] 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.
205] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
206] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
207] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
208] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
209] 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
210] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
211] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
212] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
213] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
214] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
215] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
216] 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)
217] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
218] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
219] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
220] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
221] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
222] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
223] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
224] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
225] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
226] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
227] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
228] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
229] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
230] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
231] 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.
232] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
233] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
234] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
235] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
236] 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
237] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
238] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
239] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
240] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
241] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
242] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
243] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
244] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
245] 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.
246] 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.
247] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
248] 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
249] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
250] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
251] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
252] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
253] 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)
254] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
255] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
256] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
257] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
258] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
259] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
260] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
261] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
262] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
263] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
264] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
265] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
266] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
267] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
268] 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
269] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
270] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
271] 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
272] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
273] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
274] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
275] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
276] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
277] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
278] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
279] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
280] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
281] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
282] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
283] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
284] 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.
285] 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.
286] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
287] 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.
288] 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
289] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
290] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
291] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
292] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
293] 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.
294] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
295] 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.
296] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
297] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
298] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
299] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
300] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
301] 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)
302] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
303] 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
304] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
305] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
306] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
307] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
308] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
309] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
310] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
311] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
312] 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
313] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
314] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
315] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
316] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
317] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
318] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
319] 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
320] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
321] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
322] 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.
323] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
324] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
325] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
326] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
327] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
328] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
329] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
330] 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.
331] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
332] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
333] 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)
334] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
335] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
336] 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.
337] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
338] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
339] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
340] 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.
341] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
342] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
343] 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.
344] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
345] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
346] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
347] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
348] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
349] 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)
350] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
351] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
352] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
353] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
354] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
355] 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
356] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
357] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
358] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
359] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
360] 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
361] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
362] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
363] 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).
364] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
365] 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.”
366] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
367] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
368] 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
369] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
370] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
371] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
372] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
373] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
374] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
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] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
377] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
378] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
379] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
380] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
381] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
382] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
383] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
384] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
385] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
386] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
387] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
388] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
389] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
390] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
391] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
392] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
393] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
394] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
395] 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
396] 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.
397] 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.
398] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
399] 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
400] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
401] 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
402] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
403] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
404] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
405] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
406] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
407] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
408] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
409] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
410] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
411] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
412] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
413] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
414] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
415] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
416] 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
417] 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
418] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
419] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
420] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
421] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
422] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
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] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
425] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
426] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
427] 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.
428] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
429] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
430] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
431] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
432] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
433] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
434] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
435] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
436] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
437] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
438] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
439] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
440] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
441] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
442] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
443] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
444] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
445] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
446] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
447] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
448] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
449] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
450] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
451] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
452] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
453] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
454] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
455] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
456] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
457] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
458] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
459] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
460] 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
461] 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
462] 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
463] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
464] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
465] 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.
466] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
467] 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.
468] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
469] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
470] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
471] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
472] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
473] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
474] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
475] 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
476] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
477] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
478] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
479] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
480] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
481] 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.
482] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
483] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
484] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
485] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
486] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
487] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
488] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
489] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
490] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
491] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
492] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
493] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
494] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
495] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
496] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
497] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
498] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
499] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
500] 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)
501] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
502] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
503] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
504] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
505] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
506] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
507] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
508] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
509] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
510] 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
511] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
512] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
513] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
514] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
515] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
516] 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.
517] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
518] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
519] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
520] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
521] 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.
522] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
523] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
524] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
525] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
526] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
527] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
528] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
529] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
530] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
531] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
532] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
533] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
534] 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.
535] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
536] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
537] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
538] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
539] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
540] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
541] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
542] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
543] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
544] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
545] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
546] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
547] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
548] 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.
549] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
550] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
551] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
552] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
553] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
554] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
555] 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.
556] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
557] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
558] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
559] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
560] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
561] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
562] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
563] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
564] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
565] 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.
566] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
567] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
568] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
569] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
570] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
571] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
572] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
573] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
574] 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
575] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
576] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
577] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
578] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
579] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
580] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
581] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
582] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
583] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
584] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
585] 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)
586] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
587] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
588] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
589] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
590] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
591] 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.
592] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
593] 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
594] 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
595] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
596] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
597] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
598] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
599] 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.
600] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.