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1] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
2] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
3] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
4] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
5] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
6] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
7] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
8] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
9] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
10] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
11] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
12] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
13] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
14] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
15] 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.
16] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
17] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
18] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
19] 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.
20] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
21] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
22] 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).
23] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
24] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
25] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
26] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
27] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
28] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
29] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
30] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
31] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
32] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
33] 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
34] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
35] 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
36] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
37] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
38] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
39] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
40] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
41] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
42] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
43] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
44] 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)
45] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
46] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
47] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
48] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
49] 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)
50] 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.
51] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
52] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
53] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
54] 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.
55] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
56] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
57] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
58] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
59] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
60] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
61] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
62] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
63] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
64] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
65] 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.
66] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
67] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
68] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
69] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
70] 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.
71] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
72] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
73] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
74] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
75] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
76] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
77] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
78] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
79] 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.
80] 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.
81] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
82] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
83] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
84] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
85] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
86] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
87] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
88] 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
89] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
90] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
91] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
92] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
93] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
94] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
95] 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)
96] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
97] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
99] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
100] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
101] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
102] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
103] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
104] 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)
105] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
106] 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
107] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
108] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
109] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
110] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
111] 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)
112] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
113] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
114] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
115] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
116] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
117] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
118] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
119] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
120] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
121] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
122] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
123] 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.
124] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
125] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
126] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
127] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
128] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
129] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
130] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
131] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
132] 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
133] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
134] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
135] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
136] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
137] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
138] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
139] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
140] 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.
141] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
142] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
143] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
144] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
145] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
146] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
147] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
148] 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)
149] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
150] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
151] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
152] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
153] 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
154] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
155] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
156] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
157] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
158] 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
159] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
160] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
161] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
162] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
163] 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.
164] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
165] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
166] 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)
167] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
168] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
169] 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
170] 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.
171] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
172] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
173] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
174] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
175] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
176] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
177] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
178] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
179] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
180] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
181] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
182] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
183] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
184] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
185] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
186] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
187] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
188] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
189] 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
190] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
191] 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)
192] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
193] 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
194] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
195] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
196] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
197] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
198] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
199] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
200] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
201] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
202] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
203] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
204] 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.
205] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
206] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
207] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
208] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
209] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
210] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
211] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
212] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
213] 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
214] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
215] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
216] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
217] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
218] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
219] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
220] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
221] 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)
222] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
223] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
224] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
225] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
226] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
227] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
228] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
229] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
230] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
231] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
232] 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.
233] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
234] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
235] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
236] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
237] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
238] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
239] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
240] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
241] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
242] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
243] 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 .
244] 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.
245] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
246] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
247] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
248] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
249] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
250] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
251] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
252] 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
253] 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
254] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
255] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
256] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
257] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
258] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
259] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
260] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
261] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
262] 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
263] 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.
264] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
265] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
266] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
267] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
268] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
269] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
270] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
271] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
272] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
273] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
274] 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.
275] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
276] 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)
277] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
278] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
279] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
280] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
281] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
282] 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)
283] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
284] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
285] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
286] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
287] 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.”
288] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
289] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
290] 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
291] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
292] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
293] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
294] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
295] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
296] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
297] 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
298] 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)
299] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
300] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
301] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
302] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
303] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
304] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
305] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
306] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
307] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
308] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
309] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
310] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
311] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
312] 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
313] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
314] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
315] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
316] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
317] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
318] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
319] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
320] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
321] 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.
322] 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.
323] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
324] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
325] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
326] 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
327] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
328] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
329] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
330] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
331] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
332] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
333] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
334] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
335] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
336] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
337] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
338] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
339] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
340] 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
341] 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
342] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
343] 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.
344] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
345] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
346] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
347] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
348] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
349] 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
350] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
351] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
352] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
353] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
354] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
355] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
356] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
357] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
358] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
359] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
360] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
361] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
362] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
363] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
364] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
365] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
366] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
367] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
368] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
369] 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)
370] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
371] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
372] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
373] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
374] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
375] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
376] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
377] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
378] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
379] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
380] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
381] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
382] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
383] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
384] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
385] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
386] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
387] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
388] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
389] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
390] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
391] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
392] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
393] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
394] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
395] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
396] 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
397] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
398] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
399] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
400] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
401] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
402] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
403] 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.
404] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
405] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
406] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
407] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
408] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
409] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
410] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
411] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
412] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
413] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
414] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
415] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
416] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
417] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
418] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
419] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
420] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
421] 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.
422] 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)
423] 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.
424] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
425] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
426] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
427] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
428] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
429] 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)
430] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
431] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
432] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
433] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
434] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
435] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
436] 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)
437] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
438] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
439] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
440] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
441] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
442] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
443] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
444] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
445] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
446] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
447] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
448] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
449] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
450] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
451] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
452] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
453] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
454] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
455] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
456] 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.
457] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
458] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
459] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
460] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
461] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
462] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
463] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
464] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
465] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
466] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
467] 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)
468] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
469] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
470] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
471] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
472] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
473] 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.
474] 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).
475] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
476] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
477] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
478] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
479] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
480] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
481] 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.
482] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
483] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
484] 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)
485] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
486] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
487] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
488] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
489] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
490] 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
491] 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
492] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
493] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
494] 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]
495] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
496] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
497] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
498] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
499] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
500] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
501] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
502] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
503] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
504] 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.
505] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
506] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
507] 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.
508] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
509] 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.
510] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
511] 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.
512] 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.
513] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
514] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
515] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
516] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
517] 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
518] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
519] 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
520] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
521] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
522] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
523] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
524] 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
525] 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.
526] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
527] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
528] 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.
529] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
530] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
531] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
532] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
533] 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.
534] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
535] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
536] 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
537] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
538] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
539] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
540] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
541] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
542] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
543] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
544] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
545] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
546] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
547] 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.
548] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
549] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
550] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
551] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
552] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
553] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
554] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
555] 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]
556] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
557] 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
558] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
559] 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
560] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
561] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
562] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
563] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
564] 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.
565] 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
566] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
567] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
568] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
569] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
570] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
571] 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)
572] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
573] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
574] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
575] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
576] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
577] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
578] 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
579] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
580] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
581] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
582] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
583] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
584] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
585] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
586] 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
587] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
588] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
589] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
590] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
591] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
592] 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.
593] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
594] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
595] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
596] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
597] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
598] 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)
599] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
600] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle