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1] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
2] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
3] 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.
4] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
5] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
6] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
7] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
8] 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
9] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
10] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
11] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
12] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
13] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
14] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
15] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
16] 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)
17] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
18] 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.
19] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
20] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
21] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
22] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
23] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
24] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
26] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
27] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
28] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
29] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
30] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
31] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
32] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
33] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
34] 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
35] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
36] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
37] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
38] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
39] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
40] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
41] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
42] 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]
43] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
44] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
45] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
46] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
47] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
48] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
49] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
50] 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
51] 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.
52] 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.
53] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
54] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
55] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
56] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
57] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
58] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
59] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
60] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
61] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
62] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
63] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
64] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
65] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
66] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
67] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
68] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
69] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
70] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
71] 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.
72] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
73] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
74] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
75] 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.
76] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
77] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
78] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
79] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
80] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
81] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
82] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
83] 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).
84] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
85] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
86] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
87] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
88] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
89] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
90] 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.
91] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
92] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
93] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
94] 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
95] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
96] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
97] 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
98] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
99] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
100] 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.
101] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
102] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
103] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
104] 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
105] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
106] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
107] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
108] 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
109] 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)
110] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
111] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
112] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
113] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
114] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
115] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
116] 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.
117] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
118] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
119] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
120] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
121] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
122] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
123] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
124] 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
125] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
126] 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.
127] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
128] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
129] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
130] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
131] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
132] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
133] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
134] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
135] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
136] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
137] 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
138] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
139] 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)
140] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
141] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
142] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
143] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
144] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
145] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
146] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
147] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
148] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
149] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
150] 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)
151] 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.
152] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
153] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
154] 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)
155] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
156] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
157] 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)
158] 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.
159] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
160] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
161] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
162] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
163] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
164] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
165] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
166] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
167] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
168] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
169] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
170] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
171] 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
172] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
173] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
174] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
175] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
176] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
177] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
178] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
179] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
180] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
181] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
182] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
183] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
184] 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.
185] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
186] 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.
187] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
188] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
189] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
190] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
191] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
192] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
193] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
194] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
195] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
196] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
197] 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.
198] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
199] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
200] 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.
201] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
202] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
203] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
204] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
205] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
206] 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.
207] 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
208] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
209] 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
210] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
211] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
212] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
213] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
214] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
215] 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.
216] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
217] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
218] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
219] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
220] 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.
221] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
222] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
223] 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.
224] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
225] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
226] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
227] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
228] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
229] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
230] 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.
231] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
232] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
233] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
234] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
235] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
236] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
237] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
238] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
239] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
240] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
241] 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
242] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
243] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
244] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
245] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
246] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
247] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
248] 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
249] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
250] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
251] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
252] 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
253] 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
254] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
255] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
256] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
257] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
258] 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)
259] 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.
260] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
261] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
262] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
263] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
264] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
265] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
266] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
267] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
268] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
269] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
270] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
271] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
272] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
273] 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
274] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
275] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
276] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
277] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
278] 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.
279] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
280] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
281] 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.
282] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
283] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
284] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
285] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
286] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
287] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
288] 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
289] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
290] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
291] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
292] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
293] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
294] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
295] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
296] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
297] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
298] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
299] 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)
300] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
301] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
302] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
303] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
304] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
305] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
306] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
307] 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
308] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
309] 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)
310] 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
311] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
312] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
313] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
314] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
315] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
316] 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]
317] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
318] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
319] 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.
320] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
321] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
322] 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.
323] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
324] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
325] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
326] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
327] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
328] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
329] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
330] 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.
331] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
332] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
333] 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)
334] 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)
335] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
336] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
337] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
338] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
339] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
340] 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.
341] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
342] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
343] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
344] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
345] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
346] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
347] 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.
348] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
349] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
350] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
351] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
352] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
353] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
354] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
355] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
356] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
357] 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)
358] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
359] 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)
360] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
361] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
362] 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.
363] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
364] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
365] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
366] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
367] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
368] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
369] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
370] 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.
371] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
372] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
373] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
374] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
375] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
376] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
377] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
378] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
379] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
380] 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.
381] 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.
382] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
383] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
384] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
385] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
386] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
387] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
388] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
389] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
390] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
391] 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.
392] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
393] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
394] 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
395] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
396] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
397] 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)
398] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
399] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
400] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
401] 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.
402] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
403] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
404] 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
405] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
406] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
407] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
408] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
409] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
410] 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.
411] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
412] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
413] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
414] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
415] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
416] 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
417] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
418] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
419] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
420] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
421] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
422] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
423] 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)
424] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
425] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
426] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
427] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
428] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
429] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
430] 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
431] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
432] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
433] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
434] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
435] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
436] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
437] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
438] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
439] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
440] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
441] 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
442] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
443] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
444] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
445] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
446] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
447] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
448] 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
449] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
450] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
451] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
452] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
453] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
454] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
455] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
456] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
457] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
458] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
459] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
460] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
461] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
462] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
463] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
464] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
465] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
466] 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.
467] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
468] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
469] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
470] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
471] 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
472] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
473] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
474] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
475] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
476] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
477] 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
478] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
479] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
480] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
481] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
482] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
483] 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
484] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
485] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
486] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
487] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
488] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
489] 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.
490] 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.
491] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
492] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
493] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
495] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
496] 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.
497] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
498] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
499] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
500] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
501] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
502] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
503] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
504] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
505] 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.
506] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
507] 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)
508] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
509] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
510] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
511] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
512] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
513] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
514] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
515] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
516] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
517] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
518] 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
519] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
520] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
521] 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
522] 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.
523] 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.
524] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
525] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
526] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
527] 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
528] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
529] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
530] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
531] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
532] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
533] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
534] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
535] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
536] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
537] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
538] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
539] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
540] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
541] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
542] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
543] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
544] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
545] 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.
546] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
547] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
548] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
549] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
550] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
551] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
552] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
553] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
554] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
555] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
556] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
557] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
558] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
559] 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
560] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
561] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
562] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
563] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
564] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
565] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
566] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
567] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
568] 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
569] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
570] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
571] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
572] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
573] 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.
574] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
575] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
576] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
577] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
578] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
579] 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
580] 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
581] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
582] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
583] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
584] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
585] 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
586] 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)
587] 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.
588] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
589] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
590] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
591] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
592] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
593] 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
594] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
595] 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.
596] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
597] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
598] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
599] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
600] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)