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1] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
2] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
3] 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
4] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
5] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
6] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
7] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
8] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
9] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
10] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
11] 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
12] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
13] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
14] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
15] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
16] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
17] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
18] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
19] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
20] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
21] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
22] 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.
23] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
24] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
25] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
26] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
27] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
28] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
29] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
30] 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.
31] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
32] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
33] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
34] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
35] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
36] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
37] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
38] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
39] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
40] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
41] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
42] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
43] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
44] 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.
45] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
46] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
47] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
48] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
49] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
50] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
51] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
52] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
53] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
54] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
55] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
56] 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
57] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
58] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
59] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
60] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
61] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
62] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
63] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
64] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
65] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
66] 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)
67] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
68] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
69] 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.
70] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
71] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
72] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
73] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
74] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
75] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
76] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
77] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
78] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
79] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
80] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
81] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
82] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
83] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
84] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
85] 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
86] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
87] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
88] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
89] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
90] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
91] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
92] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
93] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
94] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
95] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
96] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
97] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
98] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
99] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
100] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
101] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
102] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
103] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
104] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
105] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
106] 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)
107] 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
108] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
109] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
110] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
111] 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.
112] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
113] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
114] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
115] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
116] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
117] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
118] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
119] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
120] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
121] 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.
122] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
123] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
124] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
125] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
126] 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
127] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
128] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
129] 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
130] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
131] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
132] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
133] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
134] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
135] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
136] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
137] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
138] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
139] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
140] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
141] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
142] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
143] 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
144] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
145] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
146] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
147] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
148] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
149] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
150] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
151] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
152] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
153] 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)
154] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
155] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
156] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
157] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
158] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
159] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
160] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
161] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
162] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
163] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
164] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
165] 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.
166] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
167] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
168] 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
169] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
170] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
171] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
172] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
173] 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
174] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
175] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
176] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
177] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
178] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
179] 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
180] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
181] 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.
182] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
183] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
184] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
185] 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
186] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
187] 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
188] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
189] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
190] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
191] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
192] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
193] 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
194] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
195] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
196] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
197] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
198] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
199] 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.
200] 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
201] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
202] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
203] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
204] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
205] 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
206] 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
207] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
208] 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.
209] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
210] 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.
211] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
212] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
213] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
214] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
215] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
216] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
217] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
218] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
219] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
220] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
221] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
222] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
223] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
224] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
225] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
226] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
227] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
228] 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
229] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
230] 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
231] 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
232] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
233] 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
234] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
235] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
236] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
237] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
238] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
239] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
240] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
241] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
242] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
243] 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.
244] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
245] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
246] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
247] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
248] 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.
249] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
250] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
251] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
252] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
253] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
254] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
255] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
256] 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)
257] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
258] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
259] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
260] 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.
261] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
262] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
263] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
264] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
265] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
266] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
267] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
268] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
269] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
270] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
271] 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
272] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
273] 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
274] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
275] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
276] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
277] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
278] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
279] 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
280] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
281] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
282] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
283] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
284] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
285] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
286] 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
287] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
288] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
289] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
290] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
291] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
292] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
293] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
294] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
295] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
296] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
297] 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
298] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
299] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
300] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
301] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
302] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
303] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
304] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
305] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
306] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
307] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
308] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
309] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
310] 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)
311] 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
312] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
313] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
314] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
315] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
316] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
317] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
318] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
319] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
320] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
321] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
322] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
323] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
324] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
325] 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.
326] 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
327] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
328] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
329] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
330] 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
331] 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.
332] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
333] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
334] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
335] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
336] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
337] 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
338] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
339] 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.
340] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
341] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
342] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
343] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
344] 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.
345] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
346] 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
347] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
348] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
349] 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.
350] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
351] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
352] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
353] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
354] 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.
355] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
356] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
357] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
358] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
359] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
360] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
361] 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)
362] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
363] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
364] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
365] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
366] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
367] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
368] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
369] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
370] 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.
371] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
372] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
373] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
374] 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)
375] 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)
376] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
377] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
378] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
379] 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.
380] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
381] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
382] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
383] 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.
384] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
385] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
386] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
387] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
388] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
389] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
390] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
391] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
392] 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
393] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
394] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
395] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
396] 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)
397] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
398] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
399] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
400] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
401] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
402] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
403] 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.
404] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
405] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
406] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
407] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
408] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
409] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
410] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
411] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
412] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
413] 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
414] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
415] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
416] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
417] 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.
418] 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.
419] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
420] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
421] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
422] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
423] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
424] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
425] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
426] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
427] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
428] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
429] 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.
430] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
431] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
432] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
433] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
434] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
435] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
436] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
437] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
438] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
439] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
440] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
441] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
442] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
443] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
444] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
445] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
446] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
447] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
448] 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.
449] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
450] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
451] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
452] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
453] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
454] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
455] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
456] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
457] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
458] 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
459] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
460] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
461] 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
462] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
463] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
464] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
465] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
466] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
467] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
468] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
469] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
470] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
471] 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
472] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
473] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
474] 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
475] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
476] 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.
477] 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
478] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
479] 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.
480] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
481] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
482] 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
483] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
484] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
485] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
486] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
487] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
488] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
489] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
490] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
491] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
492] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
493] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
494] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
495] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
496] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
497] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
498] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
499] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
500] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
501] 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.
502] 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
503] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
504] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
505] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
506] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
507] 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.
508] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
509] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
510] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
511] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
512] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
513] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
514] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
515] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
516] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
517] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
518] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
519] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
520] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
521] 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.”
522] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
523] 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
524] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
525] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
526] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
527] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
528] 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.
529] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
530] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
531] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
532] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
533] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
534] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
535] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
536] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
537] 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
538] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
539] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
540] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
541] 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.
542] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
543] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
544] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
545] 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.
546] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
547] 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.
548] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
549] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
550] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
551] 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
552] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
553] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
554] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
555] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
556] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
557] 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)
558] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
559] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
560] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
561] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
562] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
563] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
564] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
565] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
566] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
567] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
568] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
569] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
570] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
571] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
572] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
573] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
574] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
575] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
576] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
577] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
578] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
579] 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.
580] Commonsense is not so common.
581] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
582] 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)
583] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
584] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
585] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
586] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
587] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
588] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
589] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
590] 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
591] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
592] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
593] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
594] 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.
595] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
596] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
597] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
598] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
599] 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)
600] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams