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1] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
2] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
3] 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)
4] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
5] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
6] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
7] 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
8] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
9] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
10] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
11] 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
12] 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
13] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
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] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
16] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
17] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
18] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
19] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
20] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
21] 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.
22] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
23] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
24] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
25] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
26] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
27] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
28] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
29] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
30] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
31] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
32] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
33] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
34] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
35] 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
36] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
37] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
38] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
39] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
40] 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
41] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
42] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
43] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
44] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
45] 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.
46] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
47] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
48] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
49] 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.
50] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
51] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
52] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
53] 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.
54] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
55] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
56] 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.
57] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
58] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
59] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
60] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
61] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
62] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
63] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
64] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
65] 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)
66] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
67] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
68] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
69] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
70] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
71] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
72] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
73] 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
74] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
75] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
76] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
77] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
78] 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.
79] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
80] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
81] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
82] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
83] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
84] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
85] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
86] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
87] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
88] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
89] 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.
90] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
91] 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.
92] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
93] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
94] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
95] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
96] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
97] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
98] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
99] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
100] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
101] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
102] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
103] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
104] 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)
105] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
106] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
107] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
108] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
109] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
110] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
111] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
112] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
113] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
114] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
115] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
117] 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
118] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
119] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
120] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
121] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
122] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
123] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
124] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
125] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
126] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
127] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
128] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
129] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
130] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
131] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
132] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
133] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
134] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
135] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
136] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
137] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
138] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
139] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
140] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
141] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
142] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
143] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
144] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
145] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
146] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
147] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
148] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
149] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
150] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
151] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
152] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
153] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
154] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
155] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
156] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
157] 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.
158] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
159] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
160] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
161] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
162] 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 .
163] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
164] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
165] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
166] 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.
167] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
168] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
169] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
170] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
171] 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.
172] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
173] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
174] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
175] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
176] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
177] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
178] 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.
179] 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
180] 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
181] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
182] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
183] 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)
184] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
185] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
186] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
187] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
188] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
189] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
190] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
191] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
192] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
193] 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)
194] 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)
195] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
196] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
197] 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
198] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
199] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
200] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
201] 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.
202] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
203] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
204] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
205] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
206] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
207] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
208] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
209] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
210] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
211] 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.
212] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
213] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
214] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
215] 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
216] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
217] 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.
218] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
219] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
220] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
221] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
222] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
223] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
224] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
225] 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.
226] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
227] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
228] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
229] 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.
230] 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)
231] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
232] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
233] 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
234] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
235] 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)
236] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
237] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
238] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
239] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
240] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
241] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
242] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
243] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
244] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
245] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
246] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
247] 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)
248] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
249] 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.
250] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
251] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
252] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
253] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
254] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
255] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
256] 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
257] 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)
258] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
259] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
260] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
261] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
262] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
263] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
264] 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)
265] 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
266] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
267] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
268] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
269] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
270] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
271] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
272] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
273] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
274] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
275] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
276] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
277] 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.
278] 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.
279] 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.
280] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
281] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
282] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
283] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
284] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
285] 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.
286] 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
287] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
288] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
289] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
290] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
291] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
292] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
293] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
294] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
295] 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.
296] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
297] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
298] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
299] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
300] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
301] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
302] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
303] 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.
304] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
305] 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.
306] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
307] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
308] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
309] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
310] 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
311] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
312] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
313] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
314] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
315] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
316] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
317] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
318] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
319] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
320] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
321] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
322] 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.
323] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
324] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
325] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
326] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
327] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
328] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
329] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
330] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
331] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
332] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
333] 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.
334] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
335] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
336] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
337] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
338] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
339] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
340] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
341] 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
342] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
343] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
344] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
345] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
346] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
347] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
348] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
349] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
350] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
351] 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.
352] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
353] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
354] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
355] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
356] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
357] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
358] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
359] 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)
360] 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 .
361] 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.
362] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
363] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
364] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
365] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
366] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
367] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
368] 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
369] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
370] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
371] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
372] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
373] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
374] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
375] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
376] 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.
377] 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
378] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
379] 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.
380] 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
381] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
382] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
383] 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
384] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
385] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
386] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
387] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
388] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
389] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
390] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
391] 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
392] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
393] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
394] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
395] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
396] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
397] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
398] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
399] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
400] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
401] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
402] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
403] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
404] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
405] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
406] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
407] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
408] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
409] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
410] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
411] 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.
412] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
413] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
414] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
415] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
416] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
417] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
418] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
419] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
420] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
421] 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.
422] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
423] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
424] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
425] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
426] 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
427] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
428] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
429] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
430] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
431] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
432] 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
433] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
434] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
435] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
436] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
437] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
438] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
439] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
440] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
441] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
442] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
443] 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.
444] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
445] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
446] 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.
447] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
448] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
449] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
450] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
451] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
452] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
453] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
454] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
455] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
456] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
457] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
458] 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.
459] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
460] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
461] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
462] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
463] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
464] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
465] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
466] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
467] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
468] 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.
469] 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.
470] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
471] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
472] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
473] 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
474] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
475] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
476] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
477] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
478] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
479] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
480] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
481] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
482] 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.
483] 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.
484] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
485] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
486] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
487] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
488] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
489] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
490] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
491] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
492] 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.
493] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
494] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
495] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
496] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
497] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
498] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
499] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
500] 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
501] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
502] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
503] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
504] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
505] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
506] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
507] 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
508] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
509] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
510] 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
511] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
512] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
513] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
514] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
515] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
516] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
517] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
518] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
519] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
520] 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)
521] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
522] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
523] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
524] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
525] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
526] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
527] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
528] 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).
529] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
530] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
531] 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)
532] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
533] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
534] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
535] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
536] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
537] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
538] 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.
539] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
540] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
541] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
542] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
543] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
544] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
545] 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.
546] 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.
547] 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)
548] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
549] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
550] 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
551] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
552] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
553] 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
554] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
555] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
556] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
557] 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.
558] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
559] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
560] 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
561] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
562] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
563] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
564] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
565] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
566] 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.
567] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
568] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
569] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
570] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
571] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
572] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
573] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
574] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
575] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
576] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
577] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
578] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
579] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
580] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
581] 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.
582] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
583] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
584] 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.
585] 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)
586] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
587] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
588] 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)
589] 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.
590] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
591] 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
592] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
593] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
594] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
595] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
596] 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.
597] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
598] One of the weakness of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. [ As the farmer said, “ I’m not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.]
Don Robinson.
599] 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.
600] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.