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1] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
2] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3] 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.
4] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
5] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
6] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
7] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
8] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
9] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
10] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
11] 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.
12] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
13] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
14] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
15] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
16] 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.
17] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
18] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
19] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
20] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
21] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
22] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
23] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
24] 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.
25] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
26] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
27] 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.
28] 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
29] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
30] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
31] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
32] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
33] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
34] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
35] 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).
36] 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.
37] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
38] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
39] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
40] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
41] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
42] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
43] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
44] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
45] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
46] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
47] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
48] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
49] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
50] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
51] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
52] 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
53] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
54] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
55] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
56] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
57] 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
58] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
59] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
60] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
61] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
62] 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)
63] 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
64] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
65] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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66] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
67] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
68] 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)
69] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
70] 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
71] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
72] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
73] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
74] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
75] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
76] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
77] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
78] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
79] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
80] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
81] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
82] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
83] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
84] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
85] 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
86] 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
87] 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.
88] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
89] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
90] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
91] 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 .
92] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
93] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
94] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
95] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
96] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
97] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
98] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
99] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
100] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
101] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
102] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
103] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
104] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
105] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
106] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
107] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
108] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
109] 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)
110] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
111] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
112] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
113] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
114] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
115] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
116] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
117] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
118] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
119] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
120] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
121] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
122] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
123] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
124] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
125] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
126] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
127] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
128] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
129] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
130] 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)
131] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
132] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
133] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
134] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
135] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
136] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
137] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
138] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
139] 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.”
140] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
141] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
142] 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
143] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
144] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
145] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
146] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
147] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
148] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
149] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
150] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
151] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
152] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
153] 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
154] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
155] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
156] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
157] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
158] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
159] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
160] 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.
161] 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)
162] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
163] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
164] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
165] 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
166] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
167] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
168] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
169] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
170] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
171] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
172] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
173] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
174] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
175] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
176] 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.
177] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
178] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
179] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
180] 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
181] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
182] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
183] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
184] 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
185] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
186] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
187] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
188] 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
189] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
190] 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
191] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
192] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
193] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
194] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
195] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
196] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
197] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
198] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
199] 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)
200] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
201] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
202] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
203] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
204] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
205] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
206] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
207] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
208] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
209] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
210] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
212] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
213] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
214] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
215] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
216] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
217] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
218] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
219] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
220] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
221] 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 .
222] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
223] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
224] 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)
225] Commonsense is not so common.
226] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
227] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
228] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
229] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
230] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
231] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
232] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
233] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
234] 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.
235] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
236] 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
237] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
238] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
239] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
240] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
241] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
242] 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.
243] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
244] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
245] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
246] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
247] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
248] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
249] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
250] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
251] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
252] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
253] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
254] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
255] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
256] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
257] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
258] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
259] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
260] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
261] 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.
262] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
263] 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)
264] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
265] 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
266] 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)
267] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
268] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
269] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
270] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
271] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
272] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
273] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
274] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
275] 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.
276] 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.
277] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
278] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
279] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
280] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
281] 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.
282] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
283] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
284] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
285] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
286] 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.
287] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
288] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
289] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
290] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
291] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
292] 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).
293] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
294] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
295] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
296] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
297] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
298] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
299] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
300] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
301] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
302] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
303] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
304] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
305] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
306] Commonsense is not so common.
307] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
308] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
309] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
310] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
311] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
312] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
313] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
314] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
315] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
316] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
317] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
318] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
319] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
320] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
321] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
322] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
323] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
324] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
325] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
326] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
327] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
328] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
329] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
330] 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
331] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
332] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
333] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
334] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
335] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
336] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
337] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
338] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
339] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
340] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
341] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] 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.
343] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
344] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
345] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
346] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
347] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
348] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
349] 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)
350] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
351] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
352] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
353] 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.
354] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
355] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
356] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
357] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
358] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
359] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
360] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
361] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
362] 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
363] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
364] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
365] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
366] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
367] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
368] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
369] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
370] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
371] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
372] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
373] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
374] 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)
375] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
376] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
377] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
378] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
379] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
380] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
381] 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).
382] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
383] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
384] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
385] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
386] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
387] 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.
388] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
389] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
390] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
391] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
392] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
393] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
394] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
395] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
396] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
397] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
398] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
399] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
400] 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
401] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
402] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
403] 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
404] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
405] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
406] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
407] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
408] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
409] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
410] 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
411] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
412] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
413] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
414] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
415] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
416] 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.
417] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
418] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
419] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
420] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
421] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
422] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
423] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
424] 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
425] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
426] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
427] 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)
428] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
429] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
430] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
431] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
432] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
433] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
434] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
435] 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
436] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
437] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
438] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
439] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
440] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
441] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
442] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
443] 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.
444] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
445] 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)
446] 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
447] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
448] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
449] 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)
450] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
451] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
452] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
453] 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.
454] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
455] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
456] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
457] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
458] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
459] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
460] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
461] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
462] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
463] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
464] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
465] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
466] 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.
467] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
468] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
469] 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.
470] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
471] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
472] 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.
473] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
474] 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.
475] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
476] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
477] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
478] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
479] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
480] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
481] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
482] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
483] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
484] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
485] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
486] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
487] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
488] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
489] 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.
490] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
491] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
492] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
493] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
494] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
495] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
496] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
497] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
498] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
499] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
500] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
501] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
502] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
503] 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.
504] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
505] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
506] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
507] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
508] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
509] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
510] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
512] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
513] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
514] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
515] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
516] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
517] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
518] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
519] 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)
520] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
521] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
522] 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
523] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
524] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
525] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
526] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
527] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
528] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
529] 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
530] 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
531] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
532] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
533] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
534] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
535] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
536] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
537] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
538] 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.
539] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
540] 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.
541] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
542] 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
543] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
544] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
545] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
546] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
547] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
548] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
549] 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
550] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
551] 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.
552] 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
553] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
554] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
555] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
556] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
557] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
558] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
559] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
560] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
561] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
562] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
563] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
564] 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.
565] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
566] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
567] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
568] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
569] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
570] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
571] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
572] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
573] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
574] 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.
575] 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.
576] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
577] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
578] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
579] 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)
580] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
581] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
582] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
583] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
584] 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
585] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
586] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
587] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
588] 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)
589] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
590] 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
591] 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.
592] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
593] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
594] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
595] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
596] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
597] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
598] 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
599] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
600] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.