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1] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
2] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
3] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
4] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
5] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
6] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
7] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
8] 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)
9] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
10] Commonsense is not so common.
11] 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
12] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
13] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
14] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
15] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
16] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
17] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
18] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
19] 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.
20] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
21] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
22] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
23] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
24] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
25] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
26] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
27] 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
28] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
29] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
30] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
31] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
32] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
33] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
34] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
35] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
36] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
37] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
38] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
39] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
40] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
41] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
42] 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.
43] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
44] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
45] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
46] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
47] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
49] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
50] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
51] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
52] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
53] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
54] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
55] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
56] 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.
57] 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.
58] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
59] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
60] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
61] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
62] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
63] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
64] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
65] 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)
66] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
67] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
68] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
69] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
70] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
71] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
72] 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]
73] 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
74] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
75] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
76] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
77] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
78] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
79] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
80] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
81] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
82] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
83] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
84] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
85] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
86] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
87] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
88] 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
89] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
90] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
91] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
92] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
93] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
94] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
95] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
96] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
97] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
98] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
99] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
100] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
101] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
102] 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
103] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
104] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
105] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
106] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
107] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
108] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
109] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
110] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
111] 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)
112] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
113] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
114] 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.
115] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
116] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
117] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
118] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
119] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
120] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
121] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
122] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
123] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
124] 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.
125] 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.
126] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
127] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
128] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
129] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
130] 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
131] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
132] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
133] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
134] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
135] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
136] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
137] 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)
138] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
139] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
140] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
141] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
142] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
143] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
144] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
145] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
146] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
147] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
148] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
149] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
150] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
151] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
152] 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
153] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
154] 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.
155] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
156] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
157] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
158] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
159] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
160] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
161] 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.
162] 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)
163] 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
164] 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.
165] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
166] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
167] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
168] 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.
169] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
170] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
171] 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.
172] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
173] 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)
174] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
175] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
176] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
177] 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.
178] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
179] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
180] 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.
181] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
182] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
183] 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)
184] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
185] 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.
186] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
187] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
188] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
189] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
190] 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.
191] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
192] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
193] 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.
194] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
195] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
196] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
197] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
198] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
199] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
200] 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.
201] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
202] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
203] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
204] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
205] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
206] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
207] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
208] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
209] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
210] 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.
211] 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
212] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
213] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
214] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
215] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
216] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
217] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
218] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
219] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
220] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
221] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
222] 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
223] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
224] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
225] 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.
226] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
227] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
228] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
229] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
230] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
231] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
232] 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
233] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
234] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
235] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
236] 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.
237] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
238] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
239] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
240] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
241] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
242] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
243] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
244] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
245] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
246] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
247] 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.
248] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
249] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
250] 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
251] 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
252] 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.
253] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
254] 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 .
255] 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
256] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
257] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
258] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
259] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
260] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
261] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
262] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
263] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
264] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
265] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
266] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
267] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
268] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
269] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
270] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
271] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
272] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
273] 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
274] 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.
275] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
276] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
277] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
278] 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.
279] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
280] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
281] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
282] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
283] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
284] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
285] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
286] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
287] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
288] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
289] 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
290] 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
291] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
292] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
293] 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)
294] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
295] 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
296] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
297] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
298] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
299] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
300] 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.
301] 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]
302] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
303] 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
304] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
305] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
306] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
307] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
308] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
309] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
310] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
311] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
312] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
313] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
314] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
315] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
316] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
317] 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.
318] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
319] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
320] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
321] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
322] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
323] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
324] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
325] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
326] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
327] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
328] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
329] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
330] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
331] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
332] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
333] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
334] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
335] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
336] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
337] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
338] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
339] 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.
340] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
341] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
342] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
343] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
344] 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)
345] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
346] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
347] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
348] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
349] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
350] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
351] 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)
352] 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
353] 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.
354] 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
355] 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.
356] 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.
357] 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.
358] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
359] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
360] 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
361] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
362] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
363] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
364] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
365] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
366] 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
367] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
368] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
369] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
370] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
371] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
372] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
373] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
374] 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
375] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
376] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
377] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
378] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
379] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
380] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
381] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
382] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
383] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
384] 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)
385] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
386] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
387] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
388] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
389] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
390] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
391] 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.
392] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
393] 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)
394] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
395] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
396] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
397] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
398] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
399] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
400] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
401] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
402] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
403] 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.
404] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
405] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
406] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
407] 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.
408] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
409] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
410] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
411] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
412] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
413] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
414] 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.
415] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
416] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
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] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
419] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
420] 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)
421] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
422] You must pay the fool a little time if you would not be thought wholly a foot… Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel De Montaighe. (1533 – 1592)
423] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
424] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
425] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
426] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
427] 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.
428] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
429] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
430] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
431] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
432] 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.
433] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
434] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
435] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
436] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
437] 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
438] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
439] 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.
440] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
441] 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.
442] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
443] 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
444] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
445] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
446] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
447] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
448] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
449] 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.
450] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
451] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
452] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
453] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
454] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
455] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
456] 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
457] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
458] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
459] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
460] 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.
461] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
462] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
463] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
464] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
465] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
466] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
467] 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
468] 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
469] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
470] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
471] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
472] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
473] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
474] 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
475] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
476] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
477] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
478] 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.
479] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
480] 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)
481] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
482] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
483] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
484] 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
485] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
486] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
487] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
488] 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)
489] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
490] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
491] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
492] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
493] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
494] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
495] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
496] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
497] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
498] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
499] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
500] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
501] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
502] 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)
503] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
504] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
505] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
506] 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.
507] 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.
508] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
509] 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.
510] 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
511] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
512] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
513] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
514] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
515] 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)
516] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
517] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
518] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
519] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
520] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
521] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
522] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
523] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
524] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
525] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
526] 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.
527] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
528] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
529] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
530] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
531] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
532] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
533] 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
534] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
535] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
536] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
537] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
538] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
539] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
540] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
541] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
542] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
543] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
544] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
545] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
546] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
547] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
548] 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
549] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
550] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
551] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
552] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
553] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
554] 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.
555] 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.
556] 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
557] 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
558] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
559] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
560] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
561] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
562] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
563] 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)
564] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
565] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
566] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
567] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
568] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
569] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
570] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
571] 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
572] 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)
573] 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
574] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
575] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
576] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
577] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
578] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
579] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
580] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
581] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
582] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
583] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
584] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
585] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
586] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
587] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
588] 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.
589] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
590] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
591] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
592] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
593] 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.
594] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
595] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
596] 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.
597] 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
598] 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.
599] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
600] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan