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1] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
2] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
3] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
4] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
5] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
6] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
7] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
8] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
9] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
10] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
11] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
12] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
13] 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
14] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
15] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
16] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
17] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
18] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
20] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
21] 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.
22] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
23] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
24] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
25] 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
26] 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.
27] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
28] 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)
29] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
30] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
31] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
32] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
33] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
34] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
35] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
36] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
37] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
38] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
39] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
40] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
41] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
42] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
43] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
44] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
45] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
46] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
47] 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.
48] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
49] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
50] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
51] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
52] 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
53] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
54] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
55] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
56] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
57] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
58] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
59] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
60] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
61] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
62] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
63] 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)
64] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
65] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
66] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
67] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
68] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
69] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
70] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
71] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
72] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
73] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
74] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
75] 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.
76] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
77] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
78] 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.
79] 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.
80] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
81] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
82] 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.
83] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
84] 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
85] 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)
86] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
87] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
88] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
89] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
90] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
91] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
92] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
93] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
94] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
95] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
96] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
97] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
98] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
99] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
100] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
101] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
102] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
103] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
104] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
105] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
106] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
107] 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.
108] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
109] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
110] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
111] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
112] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
113] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
114] 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.
115] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
116] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
117] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
118] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
119] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
120] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
121] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
122] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
123] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
124] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
125] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
126] 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.
127] 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
128] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
129] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
130] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
131] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
132] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
133] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
134] 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)
135] 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)
136] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
137] 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)
138] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
139] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
140] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
141] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
142] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
143] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
144] 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.
145] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
146] 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.
147] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
148] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
149] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
150] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
151] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
152] 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.
153] 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.
154] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
155] 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)
156] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
157] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
158] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
159] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
160] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
161] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
162] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
163] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
164] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
165] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
166] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
167] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
168] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
169] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
170] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
171] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
172] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
173] 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.
174] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
175] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
176] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
177] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
178] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
179] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
180] 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
181] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
182] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
183] 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.
184] 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)
185] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
186] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
187] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
188] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
189] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
190] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
191] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
192] 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.
193] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
194] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
195] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
196] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
197] 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.
198] 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
199] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
200] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
201] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
202] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
203] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
204] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
205] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
206] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
207] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
208] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
209] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
210] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
211] 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
212] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
213] 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.
214] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
215] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
216] 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
217] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
218] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
219] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
220] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
221] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
222] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
223] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
224] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
225] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
226] 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.
227] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
228] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
229] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
230] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
231] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
232] 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)
233] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
234] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
235] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
236] 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
237] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
238] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
239] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
240] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
241] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
242] 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.
243] 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.
244] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
245] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
246] 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
247] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
248] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
251] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
252] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
253] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
254] 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.
255] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
256] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
257] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
258] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
259] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
260] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
261] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
262] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
263] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
264] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
265] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
266] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
267] 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.
268] 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)
269] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
270] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
271] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
272] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
273] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
274] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
275] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
276] 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.
277] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
278] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
279] 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.
280] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
281] 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
282] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
283] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
284] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
285] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
286] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
287] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
288] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
289] 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
290] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
291] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
292] 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
293] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
294] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
295] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
296] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
297] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
298] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
299] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
300] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
301] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
302] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
303] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
304] 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
305] 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.
306] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
307] 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.
308] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
309] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
311] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
312] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
313] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
314] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
315] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
316] 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.
317] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
318] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
319] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
320] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
321] 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).
322] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
323] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
324] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
325] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
326] 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.
327] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
328] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
329] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
330] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
331] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
332] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
333] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
334] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
335] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
336] 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
337] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
338] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
339] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
340] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
341] 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.
342] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
343] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
344] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
345] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
346] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
347] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
348] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
349] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
350] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
351] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
352] 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
353] 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.
354] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
355] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
356] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
357] 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
358] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
359] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
360] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
361] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
362] 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.
363] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
364] 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.
365] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
366] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
367] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
368] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
369] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
370] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
371] 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
372] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
373] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
374] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
375] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
376] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
377] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
378] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
379] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
380] 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)
381] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
382] 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
383] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
384] 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
385] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
386] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
387] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
388] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
389] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
390] 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
391] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
392] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
393] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
394] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
395] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
396] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
397] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
398] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
399] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
400] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
401] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
402] 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.
403] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
404] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
405] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
406] 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
407] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
408] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
409] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
410] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
411] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
412] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
413] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
414] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
415] 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)
416] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
417] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
418] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
419] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
420] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
421] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
422] 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.
423] 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.
424] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
425] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
426] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
427] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
428] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
429] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
430] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
431] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
432] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
433] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
434] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
435] 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
436] 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
437] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
438] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
439] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
440] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
441] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
442] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
443] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
444] 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.
445] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
446] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
447] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
448] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
449] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
450] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
451] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
452] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
453] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
454] 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
455] 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
456] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
457] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
458] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
459] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
460] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
461] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
462] 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
463] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
464] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
465] 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.
466] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
467] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
468] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
469] 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
470] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
471] 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.
472] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
473] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
474] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
475] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
476] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
477] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
478] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
479] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
480] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
481] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
482] 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.
483] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
484] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
485] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
486] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
487] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
488] 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.
489] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
490] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
491] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
492] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
493] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
494] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
495] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
496] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
497] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
498] 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).
499] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
500] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
501] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
502] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
503] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
504] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
505] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
506] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
507] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
508] 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.
509] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
510] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
511] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
512] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
513] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
514] 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
515] 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
516] 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.
517] 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)
518] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
519] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
520] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
521] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
522] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
523] 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.
524] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
525] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
526] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
527] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
528] 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
529] 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
530] 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)
531] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
532] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
533] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
534] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
535] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
536] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
537] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
538] 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.
539] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
540] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
541] 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)
542] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
543] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
544] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
545] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
546] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
547] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
548] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
549] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
550] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
551] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
552] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
553] Commonsense is not so common.
554] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
555] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
556] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
557] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
558] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
559] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
560] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
561] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
562] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
563] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
564] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
565] 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.
566] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
567] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
568] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
569] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
570] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
571] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
572] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
573] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
574] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
575] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
576] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
577] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
578] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
579] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
580] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
581] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
582] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
583] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
584] 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
585] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
586] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
587] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
588] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
589] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
590] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
591] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
592] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
593] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
594] 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.
595] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
596] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
597] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
598] 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.
599] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
600] 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)