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1] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
2] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
3] 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
4] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
5] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
6] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
7] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
8] 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.
9] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
10] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
11] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
12] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
13] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
14] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
15] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
16] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
17] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
18] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
19] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
20] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
21] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
22] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
23] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
24] 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.
25] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
26] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
27] 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.
28] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
29] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
30] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
31] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
32] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
33] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
34] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
35] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
36] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
37] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
38] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
39] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
40] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
41] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
42] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
43] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
44] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
45] 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
46] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
47] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
48] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
49] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
50] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
51] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
52] 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.
53] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
54] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
55] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
56] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
57] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
58] 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.
59] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
60] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
61] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
62] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
63] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
64] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
65] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
66] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
67] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
68] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
69] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
70] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
71] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
72] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
73] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
74] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
75] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
76] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
77] 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)
78] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
79] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
80] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
81] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
82] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
83] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
84] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
85] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
86] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
87] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
88] 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)
89] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
90] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
91] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
92] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
93] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
94] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
95] 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
96] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
97] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
98] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
99] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
100] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
101] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
102] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
103] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
104] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
105] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
106] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
107] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
108] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
109] 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)
110] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
111] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
112] 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)
113] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
114] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
115] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
116] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
117] 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.
118] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
119] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
120] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
121] 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
122] 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.
123] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
124] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
125] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
126] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
127] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
128] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
129] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
130] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
131] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
132] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
133] 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.
134] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
135] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
136] 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).
137] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
138] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
139] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
140] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
141] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
142] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
143] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
144] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
145] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
146] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
147] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
148] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
149] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
150] 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.
151] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
152] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
153] 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.
154] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
155] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
156] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
157] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
158] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
159] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
160] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
161] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
162] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
163] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
164] 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.
165] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
166] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
167] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
168] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
169] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
170] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
171] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
172] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
173] 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.
174] 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
175] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
176] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
177] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
178] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
179] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
180] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
181] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
182] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
183] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
184] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
185] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
186] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
187] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
188] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
189] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
190] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
191] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
192] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
193] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
194] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
195] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
196] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
197] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
198] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
199] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
200] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
201] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
202] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
203] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
204] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
205] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
206] 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
207] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
208] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
209] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
210] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
211] 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)
212] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
213] 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.
214] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
215] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
216] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
217] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
218] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
219] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
220] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
221] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
222] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
223] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
224] 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
225] 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
226] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
227] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
228] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
229] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
230] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
231] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
232] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
233] 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
234] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
235] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
236] 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.
237] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
238] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
239] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
240] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
242] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
243] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
244] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
245] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
246] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
247] 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.
248] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
249] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
250] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
251] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
252] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
253] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
254] 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
255] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
256] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
257] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
258] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
259] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
260] 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
261] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
262] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
263] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
264] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
265] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
266] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
267] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
268] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
269] 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.
270] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
271] 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
272] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
273] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
274] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
275] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
276] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
277] 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.
278] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
279] 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)
280] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
281] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
282] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
283] 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
284] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
285] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
286] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
287] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
288] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
289] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
290] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
291] 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)
292] 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.
293] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
294] 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
295] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
296] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
297] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
298] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
299] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
300] 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
301] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
302] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
303] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
304] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
305] 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)
306] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
307] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
308] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
309] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
310] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
311] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
312] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
313] 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)
314] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
315] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
316] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
317] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
318] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
319] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
320] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
321] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
322] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
323] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
324] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
325] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
326] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
327] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
328] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
329] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
330] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
331] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
332] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
333] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
334] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
335] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
336] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
337] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
338] 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.
339] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
340] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
341] 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
342] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
343] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
344] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
345] 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
346] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
347] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
348] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
349] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
350] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
351] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
352] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
353] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
354] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
355] 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.
356] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
357] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
358] 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.
359] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
360] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
361] 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)
362] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
363] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
364] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
365] 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.
366] 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)
367] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
368] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
369] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
370] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
371] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
372] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
373] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
374] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
375] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
376] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
377] 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)
378] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
379] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
380] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
381] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
382] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
383] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
384] 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
385] 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)
386] 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.
387] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
388] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
389] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
390] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
391] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
392] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
393] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
394] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
395] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
396] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
397] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
398] 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
399] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
400] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
401] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
402] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
403] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
404] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
405] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
406] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
407] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
408] 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.
409] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
410] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
411] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
412] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
413] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
414] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
415] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
416] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
417] 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)
418] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
419] 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
420] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
421] 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.
422] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
423] 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.
424] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
425] 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
426] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
427] 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
428] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
429] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
430] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
431] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
432] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
433] 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.
434] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
435] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
436] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
437] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
438] 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.
439] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
440] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
441] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
442] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
443] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
444] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
445] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
446] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
447] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
448] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
449] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
450] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
451] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
452] 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.
453] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
454] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
455] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
456] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
457] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
458] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
459] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
460] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
461] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
462] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
463] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
464] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
465] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
466] Commonsense is not so common.
467] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
468] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
469] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
470] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
471] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
472] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
473] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
474] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
475] 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.
476] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
477] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
478] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
479] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
480] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
481] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
482] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
483] 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.
484] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
485] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
486] 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
487] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
488] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
489] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
490] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
491] 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)
492] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
493] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
494] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
495] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
496] 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.
497] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
498] 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
499] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
500] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
501] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
502] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
503] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
504] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
505] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
506] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
507] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
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] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
510] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
511] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
512] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
513] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
514] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
515] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
516] 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
517] Commonsense is not so common.
518] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
519] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
520] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
521] 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
522] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
523] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
524] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
525] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
526] 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.
527] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
528] 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.
529] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
530] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
531] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
532] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
533] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
534] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
535] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
536] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
537] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
538] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
539] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
540] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
541] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
542] 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.
543] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
544] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
545] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
546] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
547] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
548] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
549] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
550] 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
551] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
552] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
553] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
554] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
555] 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.”
556] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
557] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
558] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
559] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
560] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
561] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
562] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
563] 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
564] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
565] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
566] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
567] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
568] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
569] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
570] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
571] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
572] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
573] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
574] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
575] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
576] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
577] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
578] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
579] 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.
580] 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
581] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
582] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
583] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
584] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
585] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
586] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
587] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
588] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
589] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
590] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
591] 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.
592] 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.
593] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
594] 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)
595] 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
596] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
597] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
598] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
599] 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
600] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.