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1] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
2] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
3] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
4] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
5] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
6] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
7] 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
8] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
9] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
10] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
11] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
12] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
13] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
14] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
15] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
16] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
17] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
18] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
19] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
20] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
21] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
22] 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.
23] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
24] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
25] 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.
26] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
27] 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
28] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
29] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
30] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
31] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
32] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
33] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
34] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
35] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
36] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
37] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
38] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
39] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
40] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
41] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
42] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
43] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
44] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
45] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
46] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
47] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
48] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
49] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
50] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
51] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
52] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
53] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
54] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
55] 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.
56] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
57] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
58] 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
59] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
60] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
61] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
62] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
63] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
64] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
65] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
66] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
67] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
68] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
69] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
70] 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.
71] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
72] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
73] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
74] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
75] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
76] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
77] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
78] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
79] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
80] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
81] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
82] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
83] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
84] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
85] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
86] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
87] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
88] 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.
89] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
90] 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
91] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
92] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
93] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
94] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
95] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
96] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
97] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
98] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
99] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
100] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
101] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
102] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
103] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
104] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
105] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
106] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
107] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
108] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
109] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
110] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
111] 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)
112] 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.
113] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
114] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
115] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
116] 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).
117] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
118] 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.
119] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
120] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
121] 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
122] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
123] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
124] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
125] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
126] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
127] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
128] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
129] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
130] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
131] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
132] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
133] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
134] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
135] 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.
136] 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.
137] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
138] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
139] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
140] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
141] 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)
142] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
143] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
144] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
145] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
146] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
147] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
148] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
149] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
150] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
151] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
152] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
153] 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.
154] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
155] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
156] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
157] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
158] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
159] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
160] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
161] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
162] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
163] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
164] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
165] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
166] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
167] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
168] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
169] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
170] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
171] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
172] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
173] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
174] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
175] 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
176] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
177] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
178] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
179] 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
180] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
181] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
182] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
183] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
184] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
185] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
186] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
187] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
189] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
190] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
191] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
192] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
193] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
194] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
195] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
196] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
197] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
198] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
199] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
200] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
201] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
202] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
203] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
204] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
205] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
206] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
207] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
208] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
209] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
210] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
211] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
212] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
213] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
214] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
215] 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.
216] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
217] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
218] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
219] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
220] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
221] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
222] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
223] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
224] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
225] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
226] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
227] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
228] 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)
229] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
230] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
231] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
232] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
233] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
234] 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 .
235] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
236] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
237] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
238] 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
239] 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)
240] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
241] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
242] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
243] 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)
244] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
245] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
246] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
247] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
248] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
249] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
250] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
251] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
252] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
253] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
254] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
255] 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
256] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
257] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
258] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
259] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
260] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
261] 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]
262] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
263] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
264] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
265] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
266] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
267] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
268] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
269] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
270] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
271] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
272] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
273] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
274] 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)
275] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
276] 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.
277] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
278] 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.
279] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
280] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
281] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
282] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
283] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
284] 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.”
285] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
286] 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
287] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
288] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
289] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
290] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
291] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
292] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
293] 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.
294] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
295] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
296] 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.
297] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
298] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
299] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
300] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
301] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
302] 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
303] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
304] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
305] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
306] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
307] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
308] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
309] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
310] 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
311] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
312] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
313] 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.
314] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
315] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
316] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
317] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
318] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
319] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
320] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
321] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
322] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
323] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
324] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
325] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
326] 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
327] 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.
328] 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.
329] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
330] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
331] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
332] 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.
333] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
334] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
335] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
336] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
337] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
338] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
339] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
340] 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.
341] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
342] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
343] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
344] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
345] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
346] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
347] 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.
348] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
349] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
350] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
351] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
352] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
353] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
354] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
355] 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)
356] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
357] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
358] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
359] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
360] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
361] 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.
362] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
363] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
364] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
365] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
366] 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]
367] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
368] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
369] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
370] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
371] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
372] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
373] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
374] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
376] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
377] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
378] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
379] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
380] 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.
381] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
382] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
383] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
384] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
385] 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.
386] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
387] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
388] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
389] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
390] 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
391] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
392] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
393] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
394] 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
395] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
396] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
397] 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.
398] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
399] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
400] 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)
401] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
402] 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.
403] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
404] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
405] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
406] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
407] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
408] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
409] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
410] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
411] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
412] I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry .S. Truman.
413] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
414] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
415] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
416] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
417] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
418] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
419] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
420] 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.
421] 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.
422] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
423] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
424] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
425] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
426] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
427] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
428] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
429] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
430] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
431] 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)
432] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
433] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
434] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
435] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
436] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
437] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
438] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
439] 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)
440] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
441] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
442] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
443] 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.
444] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
445] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
446] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
447] 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
448] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
449] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
450] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
451] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
452] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
453] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
454] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
455] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
456] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
457] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
458] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
459] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
460] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
461] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
462] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
463] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
464] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
465] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
466] 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.
467] 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)
468] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
469] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
470] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
471] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
472] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
473] 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.
474] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
475] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
476] 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.
477] 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.
478] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
479] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
480] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
481] 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.
482] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
483] 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.
484] 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
485] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
486] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
487] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
488] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
489] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
490] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
491] 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)
492] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
493] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
494] 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.
495] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
496] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
497] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
498] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
499] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
500] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
501] 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.
502] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
503] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
504] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
505] There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe every – thing or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Kovzy bski
506] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
507] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
508] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
509] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
510] 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.
511] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
512] 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
513] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
514] 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
515] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
516] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
517] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
518] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
519] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
520] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
521] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
522] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
523] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
524] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
525] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
526] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
527] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
528] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
529] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
530] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
531] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
532] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
533] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
534] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
535] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
536] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
537] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
538] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
539] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
540] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
541] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
542] 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
543] 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
544] 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
545] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
546] 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
547] The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator while the wolf denounces his for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
548] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
549] 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 .
550] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
551] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
552] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
553] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
554] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
555] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
556] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
557] 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
558] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
559] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
560] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
561] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
562] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
563] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
564] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
565] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
566] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
567] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
568] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
569] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
570] 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.
571] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
572] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
573] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
574] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
575] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
576] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
577] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
578] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
579] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
580] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
581] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
582] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
583] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
584] 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)
585] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
586] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
587] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
588] 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.”
589] 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
590] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
591] 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.
592] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
593] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
594] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
595] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
596] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
597] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
598] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
599] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
600] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.