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1] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
2] 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
3] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
4] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
5] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
6] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
7] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
8] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
9] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
10] 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.
11] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
12] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
13] 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.
14] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
15] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
16] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
17] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
18] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
19] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
20] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
21] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
22] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
23] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
24] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
25] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
26] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
27] 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
28] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
29] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
30] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
31] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
32] 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)
33] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
34] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
35] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
36] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
37] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
38] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
39] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
40] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
41] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
42] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
43] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
44] 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
45] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
46] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
47] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
48] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
49] 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
50] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
51] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
52] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
53] 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
54] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
55] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
56] 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
57] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
58] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
59] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
60] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
61] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
62] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
63] 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.
64] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
65] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
66] 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)
67] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
68] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
69] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
70] 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.
71] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
72] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
73] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
74] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
75] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
76] 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)
77] 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)
78] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
79] 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
80] 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.
81] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
82] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
83] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
84] 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.
85] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
86] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
87] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
88] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
89] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
90] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
91] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
92] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
93] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
94] 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
95] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
96] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
97] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
98] 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
99] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
100] 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.
101] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
102] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
103] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
104] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
105] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
106] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
107] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
108] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
109] 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.
110] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
111] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
112] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
113] 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.
114] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
115] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
116] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
117] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
118] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
119] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
120] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
121] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
122] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
123] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
124] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
125] 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.
126] 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
127] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
128] 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)
129] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
130] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
131] 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
132] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
133] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
134] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
135] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
136] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
137] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
138] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
139] 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
140] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
141] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
142] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
143] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
144] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
145] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
146] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
147] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
148] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
149] 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
150] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
151] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
152] 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.
153] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
154] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
155] 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
156] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
157] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
158] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
159] 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.
160] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
161] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
162] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
163] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
164] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
165] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
166] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
167] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
168] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
169] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
170] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
171] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
172] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
173] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
174] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
175] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
176] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
177] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
178] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
179] 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.
180] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
181] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
182] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
183] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
184] 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.
185] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
186] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
187] 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.
188] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
189] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
190] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
191] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
192] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
193] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
194] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
195] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
196] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
197] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
198] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
199] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
200] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
201] 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
202] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
203] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
204] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
205] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
206] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
207] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
208] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
209] 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.
210] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
211] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
212] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
213] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
214] 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.
215] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
216] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
217] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
218] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
219] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
220] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
221] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
222] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
223] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
224] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
225] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
226] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
227] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
228] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
229] 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.
230] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
231] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
232] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
233] 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.
234] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
235] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
236] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
237] 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
238] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
239] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
240] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
241] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
242] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
243] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
244] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
245] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
246] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
247] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
248] 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)
249] 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.
250] 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
251] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
252] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
253] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
254] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
255] 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
256] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
257] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
258] 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.
259] 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.
260] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
261] 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)
262] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
263] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
264] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
265] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
266] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
267] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
268] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
269] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
270] 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.
271] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
272] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
273] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
274] 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
275] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
276] 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
277] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
278] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
279] 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)
280] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
281] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
282] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
283] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
284] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
285] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
286] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
287] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
288] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
289] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
290] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
291] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
292] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
293] 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)
294] 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
295] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
296] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
297] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
298] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
299] 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.
300] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
301] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
302] 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)
303] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
304] 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
305] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
306] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
307] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
308] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
309] 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)
310] 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.
311] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
312] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
313] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
314] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
315] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
316] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
317] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
318] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
319] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
320] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
321] 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
322] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
323] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
324] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
325] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
326] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
327] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
328] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
329] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
330] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
331] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
332] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
333] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
334] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
335] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
336] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
337] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
338] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
339] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
340] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
341] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
342] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
343] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
344] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
345] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
346] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
347] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
348] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
349] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
350] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
351] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
352] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
353] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
354] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
355] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
356] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
357] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
358] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
359] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
360] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
361] 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
362] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
363] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
364] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
365] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
366] 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.
367] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
368] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
369] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
370] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
371] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
372] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
373] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
374] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
375] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
376] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
377] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
378] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
379] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
380] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
381] 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
382] 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.
383] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
384] 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.
385] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
386] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
387] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
388] 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.
389] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
390] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
391] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
392] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
393] 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.
394] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
395] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
396] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
397] 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.
398] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
399] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
400] 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
401] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
402] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
403] 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.
404] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
405] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
406] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
407] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
408] 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
409] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
410] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
411] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
412] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
413] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
414] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
415] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
416] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
417] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
418] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
419] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
420] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
421] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
422] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
423] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
424] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
425] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
426] 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)
427] 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.
428] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
429] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
430] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
431] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
432] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
433] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
434] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
435] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
436] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
437] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
438] 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.
439] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
440] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
441] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
442] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
443] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
444] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
445] 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.
446] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
447] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
448] 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.
449] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
450] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
451] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
452] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
453] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
454] 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
455] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
456] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
457] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
458] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
459] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
460] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
461] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
462] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
463] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
464] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
465] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
466] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
467] 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
468] 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
469] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
470] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
471] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
472] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
473] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
474] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
475] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
476] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
477] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
478] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
479] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
480] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
481] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
482] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
483] 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.
484] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
485] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
486] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
487] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
488] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
489] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
490] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
491] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
492] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
493] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
494] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
495] 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.
496] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
497] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
498] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
499] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
500] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
501] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
502] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
503] 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.
504] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
505] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
506] 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.”
507] 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
508] 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
509] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
510] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
511] 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
512] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
513] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
514] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
515] 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
516] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
517] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
518] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
519] 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.
520] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
521] 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.
522] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
523] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
524] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
525] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
526] 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
527] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
528] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
529] 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.
530] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
531] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
532] 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).
533] 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
534] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
535] 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.
536] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
537] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
538] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
539] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
540] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
541] 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)
542] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
543] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
544] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
545] 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)
546] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
547] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
548] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
549] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
550] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
551] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
552] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
553] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
554] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
555] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
556] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
557] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
558] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
559] 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.
560] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
561] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
562] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
563] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
564] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
565] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
566] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
567] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
568] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
569] 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.
570] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
571] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
572] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
573] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
574] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
575] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
576] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
577] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
578] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
579] 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.
580] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
581] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
582] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
583] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
584] 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
585] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
586] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
587] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
588] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
589] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
590] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
591] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
592] 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.
593] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
594] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
595] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
596] 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
597] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
598] 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)
599] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
600] 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.