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1] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
2] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
3] 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.
4] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
5] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
6] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
7] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
8] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
9] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
10] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
11] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
12] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
13] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
14] 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.
15] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
16] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
17] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
18] 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)
19] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
20] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
21] 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
22] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
23] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
25] 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.
26] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
27] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
28] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
29] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
30] 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
31] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
32] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
33] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
34] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
35] 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
36] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
37] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
38] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
39] 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.
40] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
41] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
42] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
43] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
44] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
45] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
46] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
47] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
48] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
49] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
50] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 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] 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
53] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
54] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
55] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
56] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
57] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
58] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
59] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
60] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
61] 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
62] 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.
63] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
64] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
65] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
66] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
67] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
68] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
69] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
70] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
71] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
72] 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.
73] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
74] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
75] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
76] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
77] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
78] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
79] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
80] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
81] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
82] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
83] 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.
84] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
85] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
86] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
87] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
88] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
89] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
91] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
92] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
93] 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.
94] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
95] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
96] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
97] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
98] 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
99] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
100] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
101] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
102] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
103] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
104] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
105] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
106] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
107] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
108] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
109] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
110] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
111] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
112] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
113] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
114] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
115] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
116] 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.
117] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
118] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
119] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
120] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
121] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
122] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
123] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
124] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
125] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
126] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
127] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
128] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
129] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
130] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
131] 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.
132] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
133] 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)
134] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
135] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
136] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
137] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
138] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
139] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
140] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
141] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
142] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
143] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
144] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
145] 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.
146] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
147] 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
148] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
149] 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.
150] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
151] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
152] 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.
153] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
154] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
155] 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.
156] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
157] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
158] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
159] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
160] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
161] 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
162] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
163] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
164] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
165] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
166] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
167] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
168] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
169] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
170] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
171] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
172] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
173] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
174] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
175] 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).
176] 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.
177] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
178] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
179] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
180] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
181] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
182] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
183] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
184] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
185] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
186] 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)
187] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
188] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
189] 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
190] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
191] 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.
192] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
193] 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.
194] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
195] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
196] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
197] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
198] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
199] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
200] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
201] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
202] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
203] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
204] 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
205] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
206] 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.
207] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
208] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
209] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
210] 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
211] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
212] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
213] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
214] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
215] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
216] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
217] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
218] 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)
219] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
220] 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.”
221] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
222] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
223] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
224] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
225] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
226] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
227] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
228] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
229] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
230] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
231] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
232] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
233] 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.
234] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
235] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
236] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
237] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
238] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
239] 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.
240] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
241] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
242] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
243] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
244] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
245] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
246] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
247] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
248] 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
249] 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.
250] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
251] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
252] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
253] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
254] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
255] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
256] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
257] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
258] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
259] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
260] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
261] 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
262] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
263] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
264] 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.
265] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
266] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
267] 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)
268] 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
269] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
270] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
271] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
272] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
273] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
274] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
275] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
276] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
277] 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
278] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
279] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
280] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
281] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
282] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
283] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
284] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
285] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
286] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
287] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
288] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
289] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
290] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
291] 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).
292] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
293] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
294] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
295] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
296] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
297] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
298] 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)
299] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
300] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
301] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
302] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
303] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
304] 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.
305] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
306] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
307] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
308] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
309] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
310] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
311] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
312] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
313] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
314] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
315] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
316] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
317] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
318] 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
319] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
320] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
321] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
322] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
323] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
324] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
325] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
326] 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
327] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
328] 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)
329] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
330] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
331] 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
332] 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.
333] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
334] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
335] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
336] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
337] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
338] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
339] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
340] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
341] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
342] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
343] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
345] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
346] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
347] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
348] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
349] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
350] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
351] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
352] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
353] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
354] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
355] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
356] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
357] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
358] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
359] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
360] 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.
361] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
362] 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
363] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
364] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
365] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
366] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
367] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
368] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
369] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
370] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
371] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
372] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
373] 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)
374] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
375] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
376] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
377] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
378] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
379] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
380] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
381] 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
382] 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
383] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
384] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
385] 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
386] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
387] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
388] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
389] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
390] 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)
391] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
392] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
393] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
394] 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.
395] 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
396] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
397] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
398] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
399] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
400] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
401] 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)
402] 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.
403] 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.”
404] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
405] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
406] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
407] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
408] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
409] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
410] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
411] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
412] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
413] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
414] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
415] 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.
416] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
417] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
418] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
419] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
420] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
421] 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
422] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
423] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
424] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
425] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
426] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
427] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
428] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
429] 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
430] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
431] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
432] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
433] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
434] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
435] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
436] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
437] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
438] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
439] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
440] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
441] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
442] 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.
443] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
444] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
445] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
446] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
447] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
448] 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.
449] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
450] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
451] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
452] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
453] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
454] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
455] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
456] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
457] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
458] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
459] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
460] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
461] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
462] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
463] 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.
464] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
465] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
466] 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.
467] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
468] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
469] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
470] 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)
471] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
472] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
473] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
474] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
475] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
476] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
477] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
478] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
479] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
480] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
481] Commonsense is not so common.
482] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
483] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
484] 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.
485] 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
486] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
487] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
488] 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
489] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
490] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
491] 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
492] 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
493] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
494] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
495] 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).
496] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
497] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
498] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
499] 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
500] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
501] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
502] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
503] 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
504] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
505] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
506] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
507] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
508] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
509] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
510] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
511] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
512] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
513] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
514] 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
515] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
516] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
517] 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.
518] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
519] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
520] 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)
521] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
522] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
523] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
524] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
525] 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
526] 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.
527] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
528] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
529] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
530] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
531] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
532] 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
533] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
534] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
535] 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
536] 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)
537] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
538] 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
539] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
540] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
541] 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)
542] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
543] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
544] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
545] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
546] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
547] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
548] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
549] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
550] 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.
551] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
552] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
553] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
554] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
555] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
556] 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)
557] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
558] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
559] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
560] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
561] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
562] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
563] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
564] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
565] 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
566] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
567] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
568] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
569] 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
570] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
571] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
572] 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.
573] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
574] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
575] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
576] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
577] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
578] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
579] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
580] 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)
581] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
582] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
583] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
584] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
585] 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.
586] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
587] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
588] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
589] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
590] 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.
591] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
592] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
593] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
594] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
595] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
596] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
597] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
598] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
599] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
600] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)