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1] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
2] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
3] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
4] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
5] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
7] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
8] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
9] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
10] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
11] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
12] 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
13] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] 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
15] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
16] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
17] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
18] 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.
19] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
20] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
21] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
22] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
23] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
24] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
25] 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
26] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
27] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
28] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
29] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
30] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
31] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
32] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
33] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
34] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
35] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
36] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
37] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
38] 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.
39] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
40] 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.
41] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
42] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
43] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
44] 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
45] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
46] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
47] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
48] 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
49] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
50] 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
51] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
52] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
53] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
54] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
55] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
56] 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.
57] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
58] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
59] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
60] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
61] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
62] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
63] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
64] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
65] 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
66] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
67] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
68] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
69] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
70] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
71] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
72] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
73] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
74] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
75] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
76] 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.
77] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
78] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
79] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
80] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
81] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
82] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
83] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
84] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
85] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
86] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
87] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
88] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
89] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
90] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
91] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
92] 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.
93] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
94] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
95] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
96] 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.
97] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
98] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
99] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
100] 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
101] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
102] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
103] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
104] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
105] 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.
106] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
107] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
108] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
109] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
110] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
111] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
112] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
113] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
114] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
115] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
116] 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
117] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
118] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
119] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
120] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
121] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
122] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
123] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
124] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
125] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
126] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
127] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
128] 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
129] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
130] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
131] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
132] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
133] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
134] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
135] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
136] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
137] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
138] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
139] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
140] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
141] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
142] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
143] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
144] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
145] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
146] 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.
147] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
148] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
149] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
150] 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
151] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
152] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
153] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
154] 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.
155] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
156] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
157] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
158] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
159] 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
160] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
161] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
162] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
163] 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.
164] 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
165] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
166] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
167] 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
168] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
169] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
170] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
171] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
172] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
173] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
174] 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
175] 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.
176] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
177] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
178] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
179] 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.
180] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
181] 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.
182] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
183] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
184] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
185] 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.
186] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
187] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
188] 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
189] 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
190] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
191] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
192] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
193] 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.
194] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
195] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
196] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
197] 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)
198] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
199] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
200] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
201] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
202] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
203] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
204] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
205] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
206] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
207] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
208] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
209] 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.”
210] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
211] 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
212] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
213] 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
214] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
215] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
216] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
217] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
218] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
219] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
220] 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
221] 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
222] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
223] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
224] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
225] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
226] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
227] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
228] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
229] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
230] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
231] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
232] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
233] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
234] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
235] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
236] 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.
237] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
238] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
239] 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.
240] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
241] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
242] 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
243] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
244] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
245] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
246] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
247] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
248] 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
249] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
250] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
251] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
252] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
253] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
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] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
256] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
257] 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.
258] 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.
259] 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
260] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
261] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
262] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
263] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
264] 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)
265] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
266] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
267] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
268] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
269] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
270] 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.
271] 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
272] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
273] 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
274] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
275] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
276] 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 .
277] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
278] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
279] 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.
280] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
281] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
282] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
283] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
284] 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
285] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
286] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
287] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
288] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
289] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
290] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
291] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
292] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
293] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
294] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
295] 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)
296] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
297] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
298] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
299] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
300] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
301] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
302] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
303] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
304] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
305] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
306] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
307] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
308] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
309] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
311] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
312] 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.
313] 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.
314] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
315] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
316] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
317] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
318] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
319] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
320] 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
321] 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.
322] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
323] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
324] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
325] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
326] 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.
327] 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
328] 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
329] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
330] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
331] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
332] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
333] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
334] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
335] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
336] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
337] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
338] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
339] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
340] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
341] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
342] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
343] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
344] 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.
345] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
346] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
347] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
348] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
349] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
350] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
351] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
352] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
353] 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.
354] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
355] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
356] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
357] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
358] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
359] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
360] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
361] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
362] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
363] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
364] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
365] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
366] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
367] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
368] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
369] 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
370] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
371] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
372] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
373] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
374] 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.
375] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
376] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
377] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
378] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
379] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
380] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
381] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
382] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
383] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
384] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
385] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
386] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
387] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
388] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
389] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
390] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
391] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
392] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
393] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
394] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
395] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
396] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
397] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
398] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
399] 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)
400] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
401] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
402] 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.
403] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
404] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
405] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
406] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
407] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
408] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
409] 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.
410] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
411] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
412] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
413] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
414] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
415] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
416] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
417] 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
418] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
419] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
420] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
421] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
422] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
423] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
424] 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
425] 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.
426] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
427] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
428] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
429] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
430] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
431] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
432] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
433] 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)
434] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
435] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
436] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
437] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
438] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
439] 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)
440] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
441] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
442] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
443] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
444] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
445] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
446] 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.
447] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
448] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
449] 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.
450] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
451] 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.
452] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
453] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
454] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
455] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
456] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
457] 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)
458] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
459] 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.
460] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
461] 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)
462] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
463] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
464] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
465] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
466] 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.
467] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
468] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
469] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
470] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
471] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
472] 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.
473] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
474] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
475] 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)
476] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
477] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
478] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
479] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
480] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
481] 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.
482] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
483] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
484] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
485] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
486] 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.
487] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
488] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
489] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
490] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
491] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
492] 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.
493] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
494] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
495] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
496] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
497] 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.
498] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
499] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
500] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
501] 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.
502] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
503] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
504] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
505] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
506] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
507] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
508] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
509] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
510] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
511] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
512] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
513] 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.
514] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
515] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
516] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
517] 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
518] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
519] 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.
520] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
521] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
522] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
523] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
524] 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)
525] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
526] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
527] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
528] 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.
529] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
530] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
531] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
532] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
533] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
534] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
535] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
536] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
537] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
538] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
539] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
540] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
541] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
542] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
543] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
544] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
545] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
546] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
547] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
548] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
549] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
550] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
551] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
552] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
553] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
554] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
555] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
556] 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.
557] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
558] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
559] 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
560] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
561] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
562] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
563] 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.
564] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
565] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
566] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
567] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
568] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
569] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
570] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
571] 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.
572] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
573] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
574] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
575] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
576] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
577] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
578] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
579] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
580] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
581] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
582] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
583] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
584] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
585] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
586] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
587] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
588] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
589] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
590] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
591] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
592] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
593] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
594] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
595] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
596] 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.
597] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
598] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
599] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
600] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)