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1] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
2] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
3] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
4] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
5] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
6] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
7] 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.
8] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
9] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
10] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
11] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
12] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
13] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
14] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
15] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
16] 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
17] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
18] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
19] 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
20] 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
21] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
22] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
23] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
24] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
25] 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
26] 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
27] 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
28] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
29] 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.
30] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
31] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
32] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
33] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
34] 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.
35] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
36] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
37] 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.
38] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
39] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
40] 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.
41] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
42] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
43] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
44] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
45] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
46] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
47] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
48] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
49] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
50] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
51] 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
52] 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.
53] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
54] 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.
55] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
56] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
57] 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
58] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
59] 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)
60] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
61] 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
62] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
63] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
64] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
65] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
66] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
67] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
68] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
69] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
70] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
71] 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)
72] 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.
73] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
74] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
75] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
76] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
77] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
78] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
79] 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.
80] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
81] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
82] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
83] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
84] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
85] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
86] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
87] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
88] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
89] 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
90] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
91] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
92] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
93] 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)
94] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
95] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
96] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
97] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
98] 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.
99] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
100] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
101] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
102] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
103] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
104] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
105] 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.
106] 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
107] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
108] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
109] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
110] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
111] 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.
112] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
113] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
114] 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
115] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
116] 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.
117] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
118] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
119] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
120] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
121] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
122] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
123] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
124] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
125] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
126] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
127] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
128] 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
129] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
130] 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
131] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
132] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
133] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
134] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
135] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
136] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
137] 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.
138] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
139] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
140] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
141] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
142] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
143] 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
144] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
145] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
146] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
147] 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.
148] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
149] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
150] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
151] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
152] 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.
153] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
154] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
155] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
156] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
157] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
158] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
159] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
160] 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)
161] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
162] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
163] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
164] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
165] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
166] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
167] 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.
168] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
169] 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.
170] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
171] 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.
172] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
173] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
174] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
175] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
176] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
177] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
178] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
179] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
180] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
181] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
182] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
183] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
184] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
185] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
186] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
187] 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)
188] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
189] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
190] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
191] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
192] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
193] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
194] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
195] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
196] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
197] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
198] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
199] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
200] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
201] 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.
202] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
203] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
204] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
205] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
206] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
207] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
208] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
209] 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.
210] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
211] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
212] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
213] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
214] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
215] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
216] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
217] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
218] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
219] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
221] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
222] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
223] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
224] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
225] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
226] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
227] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
228] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
229] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
230] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
231] 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.
232] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
233] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
234] 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
235] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
236] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
237] Commonsense is not so common.
238] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
239] 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
240] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
241] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
242] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
243] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
244] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
245] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
246] 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.
247] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
248] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
249] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
250] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
251] 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
252] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
253] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
254] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
255] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
256] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
257] 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.
258] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
259] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
260] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
261] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
262] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
263] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
264] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
265] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
266] 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
267] 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)
268] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
269] 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.
270] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
271] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
272] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
273] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
274] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
275] 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)
276] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
277] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
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] 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
280] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
281] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
282] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
283] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
284] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
285] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
286] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
287] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
288] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
289] 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
290] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
291] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
292] 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.
293] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
294] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
295] 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.
296] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
297] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
298] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
299] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
300] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
301] 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.
302] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
303] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
304] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
305] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
306] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
307] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
308] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
309] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
310] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
311] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
312] 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
313] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
314] 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)
315] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
316] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
317] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
318] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
319] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
320] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
321] 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.
322] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
323] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
324] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
325] 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
326] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
327] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
328] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
329] Commonsense is not so common.
330] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
331] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
332] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
333] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
334] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
335] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
336] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
337] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
338] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
339] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
340] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
341] 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
342] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
343] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
344] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
345] 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.
346] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
347] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
348] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
349] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
350] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
351] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
352] 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)
353] 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.
354] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
355] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
356] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
357] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
358] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
359] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
360] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
361] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
362] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
363] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
364] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
365] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
366] 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
367] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
368] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
369] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
370] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
371] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
372] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
373] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
374] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
375] 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
376] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
377] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
378] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
379] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
380] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
381] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
382] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
383] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
384] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
385] 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).
386] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
387] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
388] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
389] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
390] 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.
391] 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
392] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
393] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
394] 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.
395] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
396] 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.
397] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
398] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
399] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
400] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
401] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
402] 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.
403] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
404] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
405] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
406] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
407] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
408] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
409] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
410] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
411] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
412] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
413] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
414] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
415] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
416] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
417] 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 .
418] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
419] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
420] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
421] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
422] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
423] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
424] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
425] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
426] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
427] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
428] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
429] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
430] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
431] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
432] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
433] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
434] 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
435] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
436] 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
437] 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
438] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
439] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
440] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
441] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
442] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
443] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
444] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
445] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
446] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
447] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
448] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
449] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
450] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
451] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
452] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
453] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
454] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
455] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
456] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
457] 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
458] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
459] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
460] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
461] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
462] 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.
463] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
464] 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.
465] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
466] 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.
467] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
468] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
469] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
470] 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.
471] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
472] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
473] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
474] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
475] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
476] 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)
477] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
478] 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
479] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
480] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
481] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
482] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
483] 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.
484] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
485] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
486] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
487] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
488] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
489] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
490] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
491] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
492] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
493] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
494] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
495] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
496] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
497] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
498] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
499] 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
500] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
501] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
502] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
503] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
504] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
505] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
506] 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
507] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
508] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
509] 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.
510] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
511] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
512] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
513] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
514] 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
515] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
516] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
517] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
518] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
519] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
520] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
521] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
522] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
523] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
524] 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
525] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
526] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
527] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
528] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
529] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
530] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
531] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
532] 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.
533] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
534] 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
535] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
536] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
537] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
538] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
539] 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
540] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
541] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
542] Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainely and modestly.
Mao Tse – tung
543] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
544] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
545] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
546] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
547] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
548] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
549] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
550] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
551] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
552] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
553] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
554] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
555] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
556] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
557] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
558] 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
559] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
560] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
561] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
562] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
563] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
564] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
565] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
566] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
567] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
568] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
569] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
570] 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.
571] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
572] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
573] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
574] 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
575] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
576] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
577] 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)
578] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
579] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
580] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
581] 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.
582] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
583] 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)
584] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
585] 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
586] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
587] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
588] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
589] 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.
590] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
591] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
592] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
593] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
594] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
595] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
596] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
597] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
598] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
599] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
600] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin