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1] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
2] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
3] 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.
4] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
5] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
6] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
7] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
8] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
9] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
10] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
11] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
12] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
13] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
14] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
15] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
16] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
17] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
18] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
19] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
20] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
21] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
22] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
23] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
24] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
25] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
26] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
27] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
28] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
29] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
30] 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
31] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
32] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
33] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
34] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
35] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
36] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
37] 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.
38] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
39] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
40] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
41] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
42] 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
43] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
44] 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)
45] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
46] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
47] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
48] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
49] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
50] 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.
51] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
52] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
53] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
54] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
55] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
56] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
57] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
58] 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.
59] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
60] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
61] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
62] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
63] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
64] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
65] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
66] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
67] 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
68] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
69] 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.
70] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
71] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
72] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
73] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
74] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
75] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
76] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
77] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
78] 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
79] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
80] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
81] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
82] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
83] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
84] 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
85] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
86] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
87] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
88] 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
89] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
90] 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
91] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
92] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
93] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
94] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
95] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
96] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
97] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
98] 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
99] 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.
100] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
101] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
102] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
103] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
104] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
105] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
106] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
107] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
108] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
109] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
110] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
111] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
112] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
113] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
114] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
115] 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 .
116] 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
117] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
118] 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
119] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
120] 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
121] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
122] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
123] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
124] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
125] 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
126] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
127] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
128] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
129] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
130] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
131] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
132] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
133] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
134] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
135] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
136] 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.
137] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
138] 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.
139] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
140] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
141] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
142] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
143] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
144] 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
145] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
146] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
147] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
148] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
149] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
150] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
151] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
152] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
153] 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.
154] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
155] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
156] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
157] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
158] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
159] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
160] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
161] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
162] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
163] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
164] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
165] 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.
166] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
167] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
168] 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 .
169] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
170] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
171] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
172] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
173] 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)
174] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
175] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
176] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
177] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
178] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
179] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
180] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
181] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
182] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
183] 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.
184] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
185] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
186] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
187] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
188] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
189] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
190] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
191] 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
192] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
193] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
194] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
195] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
196] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
197] 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
198] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
199] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
200] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
201] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
202] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
203] 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.
204] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
205] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
206] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
207] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
208] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
209] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
210] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
211] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
212] 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.
213] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
214] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
215] 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)
216] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
217] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
218] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
219] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
220] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
221] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
222] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
223] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
224] 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
225] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
226] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
227] 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).
228] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
229] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
230] 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)
231] 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
232] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
233] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
234] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
235] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
236] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
237] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
238] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
239] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
240] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
241] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
242] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
243] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
244] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
245] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
246] 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
247] 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.
248] 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.
249] 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.
250] 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.
251] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
252] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
253] 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)
254] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
255] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
256] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
257] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
258] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
259] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
260] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
261] 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.
262] 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.
263] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
264] 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.
265] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
266] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
267] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
268] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
269] 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)
270] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
271] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
272] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
273] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
274] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
275] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
276] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
277] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
278] 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.
279] 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.”
280] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
281] 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.
282] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
283] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
284] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
285] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
286] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
287] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
288] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
289] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
290] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
291] 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.
292] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
293] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
294] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
295] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
296] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
297] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
298] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
299] 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
300] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
301] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
302] 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
303] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
304] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
305] 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
306] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
307] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
308] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
309] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
310] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
311] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
312] 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
313] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
314] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
315] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
316] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
317] 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
318] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
319] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
320] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
322] 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)
323] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
324] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
325] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
326] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
327] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
328] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
329] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
330] 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
331] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
332] 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)
333] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
334] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
335] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
336] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
337] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
338] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
339] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
340] 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.
341] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
342] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
343] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
344] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
345] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
346] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
347] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
348] 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
349] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
350] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
351] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
352] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
353] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
354] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
355] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
356] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
357] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
358] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
359] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
360] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
361] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
362] 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
363] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
364] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
365] 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.
366] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
367] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
368] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
369] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
370] 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.
371] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
372] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
373] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
374] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
375] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
376] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
377] 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
378] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
379] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
380] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
381] 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.”
382] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
383] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
384] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
385] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
386] 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
387] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
388] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
389] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
390] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
391] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
392] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
393] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
394] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
395] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
396] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
397] 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.
398] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
399] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
400] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
401] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
402] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
403] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
404] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
405] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
406] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
407] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
408] 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.
409] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
410] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
411] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
412] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
413] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
414] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
415] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
416] 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
417] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
418] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
419] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
420] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
421] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
422] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
423] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
424] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
425] 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.
426] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
427] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
428] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
429] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
430] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
431] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
432] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
433] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
434] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
435] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
436] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
437] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
438] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
439] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
440] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
441] 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.
442] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
443] 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.
444] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
445] 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.
446] 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
447] 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.
448] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
449] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
450] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
451] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
452] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
453] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
454] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
455] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
456] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
457] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
458] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
459] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
460] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
461] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
462] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
463] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
464] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
465] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
466] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
467] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
468] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
469] 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)
470] 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
471] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
472] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
473] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
474] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
475] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
476] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
477] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
478] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
479] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
480] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
481] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
482] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
483] 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.
484] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
485] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
486] 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
487] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
488] 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
489] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
490] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
491] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
492] 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)
493] 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)
494] 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.
495] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
496] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
497] 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.
498] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
499] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
500] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
501] 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.
502] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
503] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
504] 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)
505] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
506] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
507] 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
508] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
509] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
510] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
511] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
512] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
513] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
514] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
515] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
516] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
517] 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)
518] 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)
519] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
520] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
521] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
522] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
523] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
524] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
525] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
526] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
527] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
528] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
529] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
530] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
531] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
532] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
533] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
534] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
535] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
536] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
537] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
538] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
539] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
540] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
541] 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.
542] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
543] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
544] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
545] 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
546] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
547] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
548] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
549] 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.
550] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
551] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
552] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
553] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
554] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
555] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
556] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
557] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
558] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
559] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
560] 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.
561] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
562] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
563] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
564] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
565] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
566] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
567] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
568] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
569] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
570] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
571] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
572] 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)
573] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
574] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
575] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
576] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
577] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
578] Commonsense is not so common.
579] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
580] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
581] 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.
582] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
583] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
584] 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
585] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
586] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
587] 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
588] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
589] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
590] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
591] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
592] 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
593] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
594] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
595] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
596] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
597] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
598] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
599] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
600] 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)