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1] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
2] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
3] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
4] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
5] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
6] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
7] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
8] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
9] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
10] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
11] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
12] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
13] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
14] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
15] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
16] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
17] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
18] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
19] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
20] 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.
21] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
22] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
23] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
24] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
25] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
26] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
27] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
28] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
29] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
30] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
31] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
32] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
33] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
34] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
35] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
36] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
37] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
38] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
39] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
40] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
41] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
42] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
43] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
44] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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45] 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.
46] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
47] 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.
48] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
49] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
50] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
51] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
52] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
53] 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)
54] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
55] 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.
56] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
57] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
58] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
59] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
60] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
61] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
62] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
63] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
64] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
65] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
66] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
67] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
68] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
69] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
70] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
71] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
72] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
73] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
74] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
75] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
76] 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.
77] 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.
78] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
79] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
80] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
81] 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
82] 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
83] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
84] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
85] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
86] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
87] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
88] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
89] 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.
90] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
91] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
92] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
93] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
94] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
95] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
96] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
97] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
98] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
99] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
100] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
101] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
102] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
103] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
104] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
105] 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.
106] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
107] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
108] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
109] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
110] 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.
111] 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
112] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
113] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
114] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
115] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
117] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
118] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
119] 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
120] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
121] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
122] 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.
123] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
124] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
125] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
126] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
127] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
128] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
129] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
130] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
131] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
132] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
133] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
134] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
135] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
136] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
137] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
138] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
139] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
140] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
141] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
142] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
143] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
144] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
145] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
146] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
147] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
148] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
149] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
150] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
151] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
152] 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.
153] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
154] 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
155] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
156] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
157] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
158] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
159] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
160] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
161] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
162] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
163] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
164] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
165] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
166] 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.
167] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
168] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
169] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
170] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
171] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
172] 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
173] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
174] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
175] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
176] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
177] 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
178] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
179] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
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] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
182] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
183] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
184] 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.
185] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
186] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
187] 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.
188] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
189] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
190] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
191] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
192] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
193] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
194] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
195] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
196] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
197] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
198] 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
199] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
200] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
201] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
202] 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.
203] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
204] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
205] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
206] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
207] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
208] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
209] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
210] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
211] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
212] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
213] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
214] 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)
215] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
216] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
217] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
218] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
219] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
220] 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.
221] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
222] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
223] 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.
224] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
225] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
226] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
227] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
228] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
229] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
230] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
231] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
232] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
233] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
234] 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.
235] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
236] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
237] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
238] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
239] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
240] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
241] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
242] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
243] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
244] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
245] 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.
246] 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).
247] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
248] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
249] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
250] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
251] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
252] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
253] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
254] 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)
255] 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)
256] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
257] 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.
258] 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 .
259] 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.
260] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
261] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
262] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
263] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
264] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
265] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
266] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
267] 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
268] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
269] 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)
270] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
271] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
272] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
273] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
274] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
275] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
276] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
277] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
278] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
279] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
280] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
281] 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.
282] 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.
283] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
284] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
285] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
286] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
287] 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
288] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
289] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
290] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
291] 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.
292] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
293] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
294] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
295] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
296] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
297] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
298] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
299] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
300] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
301] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
302] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
303] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
304] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
305] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
306] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
307] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
308] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
309] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
310] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
311] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
312] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
313] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
314] 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
315] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
316] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
317] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
318] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
319] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
320] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
321] 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
322] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
323] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
324] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
325] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
326] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
327] 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)
328] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
329] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
330] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
331] 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)
332] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
333] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
334] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
335] 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)
336] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
337] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
338] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
339] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
340] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
341] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
342] 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.
343] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
344] 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.
345] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
346] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
347] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
348] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
349] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
350] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
351] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
352] 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.
353] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
354] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
355] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
356] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
357] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
358] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
359] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
360] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
361] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
362] 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.
363] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
364] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
365] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
366] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
367] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
368] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
369] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
370] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
371] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
372] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
373] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
374] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
375] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
376] 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).
377] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
378] 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
379] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
380] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
381] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
382] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
383] 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
384] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
385] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
386] 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)
387] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
388] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
389] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
390] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
391] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
392] 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
393] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
394] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
395] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
396] 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
397] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
398] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
399] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
400] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
401] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
402] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
403] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
404] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
405] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
406] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
407] 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
408] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
409] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
410] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
411] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
412] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
413] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
414] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
415] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
416] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
417] 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
418] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
419] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
420] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
421] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
422] 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.
423] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
424] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
425] 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
426] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
427] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
428] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
429] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
430] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
431] 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
432] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
433] 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
434] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
435] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
436] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
437] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
438] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
439] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
440] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
441] 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
442] 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
443] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
444] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
445] 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)
446] 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.”
447] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
448] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
449] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
450] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
451] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
452] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
453] Commonsense is not so common.
454] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
455] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
456] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
457] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
458] 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)
459] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
460] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
461] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
462] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
463] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
464] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
465] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
466] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
467] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
468] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
469] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
470] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
471] 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)
472] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
473] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
474] 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.
475] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
476] 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
477] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
478] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
479] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
480] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
481] 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.
482] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
483] 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
484] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
485] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
486] 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)
487] 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.
488] 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)
489] 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
490] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
491] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
492] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
493] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
494] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
495] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
496] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
497] 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
498] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
499] 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)
500] 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.
501] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
502] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
503] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
504] 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.
505] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
506] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
507] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
508] 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
509] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
510] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
511] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
512] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
513] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
514] 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.
515] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
516] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
517] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
518] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
519] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
520] 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.
521] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
522] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
523] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
524] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
525] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
526] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
527] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
528] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
529] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
530] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
531] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
532] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
533] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
534] 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.
535] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
536] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
537] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
538] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
539] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
540] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
541] 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
542] 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
543] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
544] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
545] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
546] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
547] 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
548] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
549] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
550] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
551] 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.
552] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
553] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
554] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
555] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
556] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
557] 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.
558] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
559] The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
560] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
561] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
562] 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)
563] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
564] 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.
565] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
566] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
567] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
568] 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
569] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
570] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
571] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
572] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
573] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
574] 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
575] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
576] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
577] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
578] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
579] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
580] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
581] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
582] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
583] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
584] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
585] 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.
586] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
587] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
588] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
589] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
590] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
591] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
592] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
593] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
594] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
595] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
596] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
597] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
598] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
599] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
600] 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.