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1] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
2] 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
3] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
4] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
5] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
6] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
7] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
8] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
9] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
10] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
11] 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.
12] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
13] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
14] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
15] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
16] 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)
17] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
18] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
19] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
20] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
22] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
23] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
24] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
25] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
26] 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
27] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
28] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
29] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
30] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
31] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
32] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
33] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
34] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
35] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
36] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
37] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
38] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
39] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
40] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
41] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
43] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
44] 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.
45] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
46] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
47] 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
48] 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
49] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
50] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
51] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
52] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
53] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
54] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
55] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
56] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
57] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
58] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
59] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
60] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
61] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
62] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
63] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
64] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
65] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
66] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
67] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
68] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
69] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
70] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
71] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
72] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
73] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
74] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
75] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
76] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
77] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
78] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
79] 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
80] 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.
81] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
82] 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)
83] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
84] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
85] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
86] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
87] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
88] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
89] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
90] 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
91] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
92] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
93] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
94] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
95] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
96] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
97] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
98] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
99] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
100] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
101] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
102] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
103] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
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] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
106] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
107] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
108] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
109] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
110] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
111] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
112] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
113] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
114] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
115] 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.
116] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
117] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
118] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
119] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
120] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
121] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
122] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
123] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
124] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
125] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
126] 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).
127] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
128] 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.
129] 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.
130] 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.
131] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
132] 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.
133] 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
134] 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
135] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
136] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
137] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
138] 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.
139] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
140] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
141] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
142] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
143] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
144] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
145] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
146] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
147] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
148] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
149] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
150] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
151] 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.
152] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
153] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
154] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
155] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
156] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
157] 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
158] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
160] 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.
161] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
162] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
163] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
164] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
165] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
166] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
167] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
168] 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.
169] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
170] 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.
171] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
172] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
173] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
174] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
175] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
176] 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
177] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
178] 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.
179] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
180] 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.
181] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
182] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
183] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
184] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
185] 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
186] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
187] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
188] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
189] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
190] 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).
191] 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
192] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
193] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
194] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
195] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
196] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
197] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
198] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
199] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
200] 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)
201] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
202] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
203] 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
204] 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.
205] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
206] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
207] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
208] 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
209] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
210] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
212] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
213] 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]
214] 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)
215] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
216] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
217] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
218] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
219] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
220] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
221] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
222] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
223] 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)
224] 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.
225] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
226] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
227] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
228] 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
229] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
230] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
231] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
232] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
233] 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.
234] 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
235] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
236] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
237] 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.
238] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
239] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
240] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
241] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
242] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
243] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
244] 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
245] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
246] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
247] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
248] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
249] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
250] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
251] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
252] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
253] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
254] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
255] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
256] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
257] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
258] 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.
259] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
260] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
261] 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.
262] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
263] 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.
264] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
265] 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.
266] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
267] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
268] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
269] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
270] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
271] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
272] 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
273] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
274] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
275] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
276] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
277] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
278] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
279] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
280] 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.
281] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
282] 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
283] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
284] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
285] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
286] 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
287] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
288] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
289] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
290] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
291] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
292] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
293] 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.
294] 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.
295] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
296] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
297] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
298] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
299] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
300] 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.
301] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
302] 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.
303] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
304] 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
305] 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
306] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
307] 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.
308] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
309] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
310] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
311] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
312] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
313] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
314] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
315] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
316] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
317] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
318] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
319] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
320] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
321] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
322] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
323] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
324] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
325] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
326] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
327] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
328] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
329] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
330] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
331] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
332] 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.
333] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
334] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
335] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
336] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
337] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
338] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
339] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
340] 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
341] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
342] 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.
343] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
344] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
345] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
347] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
348] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
349] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
350] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
351] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
352] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
353] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
354] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
355] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
356] 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.
357] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
358] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
359] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
360] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
361] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
362] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
363] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
364] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
365] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
366] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
367] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
368] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
369] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
370] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
371] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
372] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
373] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
374] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
375] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
376] 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.
377] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
378] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
379] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
380] 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.
381] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
382] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
383] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
384] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
385] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
386] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
387] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
388] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
389] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
390] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
391] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
392] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
393] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
394] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
395] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
396] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
397] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
398] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
399] 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
400] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
401] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
402] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
403] Commonsense is not so common.
404] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
405] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
406] 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)
407] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
408] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
409] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
410] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
411] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
412] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
413] 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
414] 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
415] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
416] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
417] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
418] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
419] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
420] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
421] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
422] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
423] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
424] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
425] 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.
426] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
427] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
428] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
429] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
430] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
431] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
432] 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.
433] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
434] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
435] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
436] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
437] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
438] 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.
439] 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.
440] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
441] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
442] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
443] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
444] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
445] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
446] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
447] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
448] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
449] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
450] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
451] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
452] 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.
453] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
454] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
455] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
456] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
457] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
458] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
459] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
460] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
461] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
462] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
463] 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
464] 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
465] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
466] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
467] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
468] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
469] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
470] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
471] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
472] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
473] 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.
474] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
475] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
476] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
477] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
478] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
479] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
480] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
481] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
482] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
483] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
484] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
485] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
486] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
487] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
488] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
489] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
490] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
491] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
492] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
493] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
494] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
495] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
496] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
497] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
498] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
499] 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).
500] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
501] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
502] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
503] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
504] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
505] 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
506] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
507] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
508] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
509] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
510] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
511] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
512] 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)
513] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
514] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
515] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
516] 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.
517] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
518] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
519] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
520] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
521] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
522] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
523] 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.
524] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
525] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
526] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
527] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
528] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
529] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
530] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
531] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
532] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
533] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
534] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
535] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
536] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
537] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
538] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
539] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
540] 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.
541] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
542] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
543] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
544] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
545] 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
546] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
547] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
548] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
549] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
550] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
551] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
552] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
553] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
554] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
555] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
556] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
557] 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
558] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
559] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
560] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
561] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
562] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
563] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
564] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
565] 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.
566] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
567] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
568] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
569] 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.”
570] 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.
571] 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
572] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
573] 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.
574] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
575] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
576] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
577] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
578] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
579] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] 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)
581] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
582] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
583] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
584] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
585] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
586] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
587] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
588] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
589] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
590] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
591] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
592] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
593] 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)
594] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
595] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
596] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
597] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
598] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
599] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
600] 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