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1] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
2] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
3] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
4] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
5] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
6] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
7] 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)
8] 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
9] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
10] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
11] 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
12] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
13] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
14] 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.
15] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
16] 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.
17] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
18] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
19] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
20] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
21] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
22] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
23] 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
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] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
26] 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.
27] 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
28] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
29] 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
30] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
31] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
32] 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
33] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
34] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
35] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
36] 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)
37] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
38] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
39] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
40] 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
41] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
42] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
43] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
44] 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.
45] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
46] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
47] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
48] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
49] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
50] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
51] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
52] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
53] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
54] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
55] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
56] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
57] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
58] 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.
59] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
60] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
61] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
62] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
63] 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.
64] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
65] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
66] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
67] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
68] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
69] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
70] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
71] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
72] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
73] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
74] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
75] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
76] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
77] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
78] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
79] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
80] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
81] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
82] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
83] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
84] 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.
85] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
86] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
87] 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.
88] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
89] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
90] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
91] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
92] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
93] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
94] 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.
95] 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.
96] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
97] 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
98] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
99] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
100] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
101] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
102] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
103] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
104] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
105] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
106] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
107] 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)
108] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
109] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
110] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
111] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
112] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
113] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
114] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
115] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
116] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
117] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
118] 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
119] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
120] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
121] 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
122] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
123] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
124] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
125] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
126] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
127] 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
128] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
129] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
130] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
131] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
132] 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.
133] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
134] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
135] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
136] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
137] 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.
138] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
139] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
140] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
141] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
142] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
143] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
144] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
145] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
146] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
147] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
148] 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
149] Commonsense is not so common.
150] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
151] 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.
152] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
153] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
154] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
155] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
156] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
157] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
158] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
159] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
160] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
161] 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
162] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
163] 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
164] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
165] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
166] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
167] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
168] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
169] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
170] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
171] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
172] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
173] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
174] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
175] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
176] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
177] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
178] 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.
179] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
180] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
181] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
182] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
183] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
184] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
185] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
186] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
187] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
188] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
189] 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
190] 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)
191] 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)
192] 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.
193] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
194] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
195] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
196] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
197] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
198] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
199] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
200] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
201] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
202] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
203] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
204] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
205] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
206] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
207] 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.
208] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
209] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
210] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
211] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
212] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
213] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
214] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
215] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
216] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
217] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
218] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
219] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
220] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
221] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
222] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
223] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
224] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
225] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
226] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
227] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
228] 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.
229] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
230] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
231] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
232] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
233] 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
234] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
235] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
236] 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.
237] 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.
238] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
239] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
240] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
241] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
242] 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.
243] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
244] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
245] 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.
246] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
247] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
248] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
249] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
250] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
251] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
252] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
253] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
254] 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.
255] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
256] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
257] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
258] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
259] 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.
260] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
261] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
262] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
263] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
264] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
265] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
266] 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)
267] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
268] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
269] 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.
270] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
271] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
272] 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)
273] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
274] 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.
275] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
276] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
277] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
278] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
279] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
280] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
281] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
282] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
283] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
284] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
285] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
286] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
287] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
288] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
289] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
290] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
291] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
292] 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
293] 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.
294] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
295] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
296] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
297] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
298] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
299] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
300] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
301] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
302] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
303] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
304] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
305] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
306] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
307] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
308] 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.
309] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
310] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
311] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
312] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
313] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
314] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
315] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
316] 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)
317] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
318] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
319] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
320] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
321] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
322] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
323] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
324] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
325] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
326] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
327] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
328] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
329] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
330] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
331] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
332] 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)
333] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
334] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
335] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
336] 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.
337] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
338] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
339] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
340] 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
341] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
342] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
343] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
344] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
345] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
346] 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
347] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
348] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
349] 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
350] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
351] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
352] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
353] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
354] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
355] 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.
356] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
357] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
358] 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
359] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
360] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
361] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
362] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
363] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
364] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
365] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
366] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
367] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
368] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
369] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
370] 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.
371] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
372] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
373] 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.
374] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
375] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
376] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
377] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
378] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
379] 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)
380] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
381] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
382] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
383] 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.
384] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
385] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
386] 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.
387] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
388] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
389] 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.
390] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
391] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
392] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
393] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
394] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
395] 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.
396] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
397] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
398] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
399] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
400] 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).
401] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
402] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
403] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
404] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
405] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
406] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
407] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
408] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
409] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
410] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
411] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
412] 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.
413] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
414] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
415] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
416] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
417] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
418] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
419] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
420] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
421] 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.
422] 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)
423] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
424] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
425] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
426] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
427] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
428] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
429] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
430] 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.
431] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
432] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
433] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
434] 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.
435] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
436] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
437] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
438] 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
439] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
440] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
441] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
442] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
443] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
444] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
445] 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
446] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
447] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
448] 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)
449] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
450] 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
451] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
452] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
453] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
454] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
455] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
456] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
457] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
458] 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
459] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
460] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
461] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
462] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
463] 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.
464] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
465] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
466] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
467] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
468] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
469] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
470] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
471] 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
472] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
473] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
474] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
475] 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
476] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
477] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
478] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
479] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
480] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
481] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
482] 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.
483] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
484] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
485] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
486] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
487] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
488] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
489] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
490] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
491] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
492] 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
493] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
494] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
495] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
496] 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
497] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
498] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
499] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
500] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
501] 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.
502] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
503] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
504] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
505] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
506] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
507] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
508] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
509] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
510] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
511] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
512] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
513] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
514] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
515] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
516] 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.
517] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
518] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
519] 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
520] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
521] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
522] 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)
523] 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
524] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
525] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
526] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
527] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
528] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
529] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
530] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
531] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
532] 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
533] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
534] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
535] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
536] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
537] 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.
538] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
539] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
540] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
541] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
542] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
543] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
544] 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
545] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
546] 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
547] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
548] 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
549] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
550] 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.
551] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
552] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
553] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
554] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
555] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
556] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
557] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
558] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
559] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
560] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
561] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
562] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
563] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
564] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
565] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
566] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
567] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
568] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
569] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
570] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
571] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
572] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
573] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
574] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
575] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
576] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
577] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
578] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
579] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
580] 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)
581] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
582] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
583] 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.
584] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
585] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
586] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
587] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
588] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
589] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
590] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
591] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
592] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
593] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
594] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
595] 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
596] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
597] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
598] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
599] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
600] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.