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1] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
2] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
3] 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
4] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
5] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
6] 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)
7] 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.
8] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
9] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
10] 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.
11] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
12] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
13] 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
14] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
15] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
16] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
17] 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.
18] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
19] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
20] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
21] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
22] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
23] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
24] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
25] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
26] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
27] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
28] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
29] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
30] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
31] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
32] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
33] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
34] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
35] 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)
36] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
37] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
38] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
39] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
40] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
41] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
42] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
43] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
44] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
45] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
46] 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.
47] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
48] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
49] 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.
50] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
51] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
52] 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.
53] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
54] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
55] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
56] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
57] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
58] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
59] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
60] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
61] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
62] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
63] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
64] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
65] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
66] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
67] 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
68] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
69] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
70] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
71] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
72] 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)
73] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
74] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
75] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
76] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
77] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
78] 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.
79] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
80] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
81] 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
82] 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.
83] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
84] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
85] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
86] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
87] 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.
88] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
89] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
90] 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.
91] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
92] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
93] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
94] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
95] 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.
96] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
97] 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
98] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
99] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
100] 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.
101] 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.
102] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
103] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
104] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
105] 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)
106] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
107] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
108] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
109] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
110] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
111] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
112] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
113] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
114] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
115] 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
116] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
117] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
118] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
119] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
120] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
121] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
122] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
123] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
124] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
125] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
126] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
127] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
128] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
129] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
130] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
131] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
132] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
133] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
134] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
135] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
136] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
137] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
138] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
139] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
140] 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.
141] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
142] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
143] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
144] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
145] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
146] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
147] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
148] 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)
149] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
150] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
151] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
152] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
153] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
154] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
155] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
156] 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.
157] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
158] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
159] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
160] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
161] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
162] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
163] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
164] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
165] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
166] 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).
167] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
168] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
169] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
170] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
171] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
172] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
173] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
174] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
175] 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
176] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
177] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
178] Commonsense is not so common.
179] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
180] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
181] 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.
182] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
183] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
184] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
185] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
186] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
187] 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
188] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
189] 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
190] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
191] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
192] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
193] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
194] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
195] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
196] 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
197] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
198] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
199] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
200] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
201] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
202] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
203] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
204] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
205] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
206] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
207] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
208] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
209] 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
210] 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.
211] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
212] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
213] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
214] 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)
215] 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)
216] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
217] 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.
218] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
219] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
220] 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]
221] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
222] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
223] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
224] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
225] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
226] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
227] 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.
228] 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.
229] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
230] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
231] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
232] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
233] 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.
234] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
235] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
236] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
237] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
238] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
239] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
240] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
241] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
242] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
243] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
244] 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.
245] 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
246] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
247] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
248] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
249] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
250] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
251] 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.
252] 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
253] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
254] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
255] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
256] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
257] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
258] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
259] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
260] 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
261] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
262] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
263] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
264] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
265] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
266] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
267] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
268] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
269] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
270] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
271] 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
272] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
273] 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.
274] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
275] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
276] 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
277] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
278] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
279] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
280] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
281] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
282] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
283] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
284] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
285] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
286] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
287] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
288] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
289] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
290] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
291] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
292] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
293] 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.
294] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
295] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
296] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
297] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
298] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
299] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
300] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
301] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
302] 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 .
303] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
304] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
305] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
306] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
307] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
308] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
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] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
311] 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
312] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
313] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
314] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
315] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
316] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
317] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
318] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
319] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
320] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
321] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
322] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
323] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
324] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
325] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
326] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
327] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
328] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
329] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
330] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
331] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
332] 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.
333] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
334] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
335] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
336] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
337] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
338] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
339] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
340] 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)
341] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
342] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
343] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
344] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
345] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
346] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
347] 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.
348] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
349] 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
350] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
351] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
352] 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
353] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
354] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
355] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
356] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
357] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
358] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
359] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
360] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
361] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
362] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
363] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
364] 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.
365] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
366] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
367] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
368] 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
369] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
370] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
371] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
372] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
373] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
374] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
375] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
376] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
377] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
378] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
379] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
380] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
381] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
382] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
383] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
384] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
385] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
386] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
387] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
388] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
389] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
390] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
391] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
392] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
393] 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
394] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
395] 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
396] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
397] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
398] 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)
399] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
400] 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.
401] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
402] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
403] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
404] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
405] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
406] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
407] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
408] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
409] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
410] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
411] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
412] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
413] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
414] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
415] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
416] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
417] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
418] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
419] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
420] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
421] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
422] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
423] 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
424] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
425] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
426] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
427] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
428] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
429] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
430] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
431] 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.
432] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
433] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
434] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
435] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
436] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
437] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
438] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
439] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
440] 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.
441] 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
442] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
443] 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.
444] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
445] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
446] 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.
447] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
448] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
449] 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)
450] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
451] 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)
452] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
453] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
454] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
455] 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
456] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
457] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
458] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
459] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
460] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
461] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
462] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
463] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
464] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
465] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
466] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
467] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
468] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
469] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
470] 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
471] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
472] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
473] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
474] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
475] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
476] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
477] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
478] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
479] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
480] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
481] 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
482] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
483] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
484] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
485] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
486] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
487] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
488] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
489] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
490] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
491] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
492] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
493] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
495] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
496] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
497] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
498] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
499] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
500] 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
501] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
502] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
503] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
504] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
505] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
506] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
507] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
508] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
509] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
510] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
511] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
512] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
513] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
514] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
515] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
516] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
517] 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.
518] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
519] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
520] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
521] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
522] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
523] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
524] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
525] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
526] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
527] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
528] 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)
529] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
530] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
531] 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.
532] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
533] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
534] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
535] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
536] 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
537] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
538] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
539] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
540] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
541] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
542] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
543] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
544] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
545] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
546] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
547] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
548] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
549] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
550] 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)
551] 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
552] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
553] 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
554] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
555] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
556] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
557] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
558] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
559] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
560] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
561] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
562] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
563] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
564] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
565] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
566] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
567] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
568] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
569] 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.
570] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
571] 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
572] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
573] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
574] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
575] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
576] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
577] 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.
578] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
579] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
580] 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
581] 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
582] 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.
583] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
584] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
585] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
586] 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.
587] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
588] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
589] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
590] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
591] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
592] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
593] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
594] 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.
595] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
596] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
597] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
598] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
599] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
600] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel