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1] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
2] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
3] 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.
4] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
5] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
6] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
7] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
8] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
9] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
10] 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.
11] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
12] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
13] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
14] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
15] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
16] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
17] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
18] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
19] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
21] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
22] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
23] 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.
24] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
25] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
26] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
27] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
28] 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.
29] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
30] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
31] 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
32] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
33] 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.
34] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
35] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
36] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
37] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
38] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
39] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
40] 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.
41] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
42] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
43] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
44] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
45] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
46] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
47] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
48] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
49] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
50] 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
51] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
52] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
53] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
54] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
55] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
56] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
57] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
58] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
59] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
60] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
61] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
62] 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.
63] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
64] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
65] 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.
66] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
67] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
68] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
69] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
70] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
71] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
72] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
73] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
74] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
75] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
76] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
77] 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
78] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
79] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
80] 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.
81] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
82] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
83] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
84] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
85] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
86] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
87] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
88] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
89] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
90] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
91] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
92] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
93] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
94] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
95] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
96] 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.
97] 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)
98] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
99] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
100] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
101] 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
102] 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.
103] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
104] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
105] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
106] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
107] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
108] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
109] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
110] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
111] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
112] 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)
113] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
114] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
115] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
116] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
117] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
118] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
119] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
120] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
121] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
122] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
123] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
124] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
125] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
126] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
127] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
128] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
129] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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130] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
131] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
132] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
133] 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
134] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
135] 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
136] 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
137] 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
138] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
139] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
140] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
141] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
142] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
143] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
144] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
145] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
146] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
147] 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
148] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
149] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
150] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
151] 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 .
152] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
153] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
154] 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
155] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
156] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
157] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
158] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
159] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
160] 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.
161] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
162] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
163] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
164] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
165] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
166] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
167] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
168] 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
169] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
170] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
171] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
172] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
173] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
174] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
175] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
176] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
177] 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.
178] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
179] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
180] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
181] 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.”
182] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
183] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
184] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
185] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
186] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
187] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
188] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
189] 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
190] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
191] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
192] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
193] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
194] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
195] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
196] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
197] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
198] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
199] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
200] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
201] 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)
202] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
203] 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.
204] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
205] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
206] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
207] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
208] 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
209] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
210] 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
211] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
212] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
213] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
214] 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.
215] 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]
216] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
217] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
218] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
219] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
220] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
221] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
222] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
223] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
224] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
225] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
226] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
227] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
228] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
229] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
230] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
231] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
232] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
233] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
234] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
235] 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.
236] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
237] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
238] 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
239] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
240] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
241] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
242] 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.
243] 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.
244] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
245] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
246] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
247] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
248] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
249] 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.
250] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
251] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
252] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
253] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
254] 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.
255] 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
256] 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
257] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
258] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
259] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
260] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
261] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
262] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
263] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
264] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
265] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
266] 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.
267] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
268] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
269] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
270] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
271] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
272] 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
273] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
274] 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.
275] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
276] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
277] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
278] 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.
279] 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.
280] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
281] 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
282] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
283] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
284] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
285] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
286] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
287] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
288] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
289] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
290] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
291] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
292] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
293] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
294] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
295] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
296] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
297] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
298] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
299] 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.
300] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
301] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
302] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
303] 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
304] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
305] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
306] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
307] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
308] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
309] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
310] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
311] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
312] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
313] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
314] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
315] 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.
316] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
317] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
318] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
319] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
320] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
321] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
322] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
323] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
324] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
325] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
326] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
327] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
328] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
329] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
330] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
331] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
332] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
333] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
334] 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.
335] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
336] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
337] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
338] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
339] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
340] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
341] 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
342] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
343] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
344] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
345] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
346] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
347] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
348] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
349] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
350] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
351] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
352] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
353] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
354] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
355] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
356] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
357] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
358] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
359] 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.
360] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
361] 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.
362] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
363] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
364] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
365] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
366] 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
367] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
368] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
369] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
370] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
371] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
372] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
373] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
374] 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)
375] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
376] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
377] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
378] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
379] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
380] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
381] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
382] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
383] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
384] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
385] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
386] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
387] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
388] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
389] 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
390] 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)
391] 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
392] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
393] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
394] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
395] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
396] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
397] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
398] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
400] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
401] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
402] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
403] 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
404] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
405] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
406] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
407] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
408] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
409] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
410] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
411] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
412] 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
413] 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
414] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
415] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
416] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
417] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
418] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
419] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
420] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
421] 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.
422] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
423] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
424] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
425] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
426] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
427] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
428] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
429] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
430] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
431] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
432] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
433] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
434] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
435] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
436] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
437] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
438] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
439] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
440] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
441] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
442] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
443] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
444] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
445] 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.
446] 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.
447] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
448] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
449] 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.
450] 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.
451] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
452] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
453] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
454] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
455] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
456] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
457] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
459] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
460] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
461] 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)
462] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
463] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
464] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
465] 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)
466] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
467] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
468] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
469] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
470] 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)
471] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
472] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
473] 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)
474] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
475] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
476] 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
477] 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
478] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
479] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
480] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
481] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
482] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
483] 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
484] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
485] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
486] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
487] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
488] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
489] 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.
490] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
491] 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
492] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
493] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
494] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
495] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
496] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
497] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
498] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
499] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
500] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
501] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
502] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
503] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
504] 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
505] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
506] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
507] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
508] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
509] 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.
510] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
511] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
512] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
513] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
514] 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.
515] 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)
516] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
517] 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)
518] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
519] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
520] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
521] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
522] 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.
523] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
524] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
525] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
526] 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
527] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
528] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
529] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
530] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
531] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
532] 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)
533] 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.
534] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
535] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
536] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
537] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
538] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
539] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
540] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
541] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
542] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
543] 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
544] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
545] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
546] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
547] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
548] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
549] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
550] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
551] 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
552] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
553] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
554] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
555] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
556] 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.
557] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
558] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
559] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
560] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
561] 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
562] 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)
563] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
564] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
565] 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)
566] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
567] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
568] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
569] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
570] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
571] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
572] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
573] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
574] 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)
575] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
576] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
577] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
578] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
579] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
580] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
581] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
582] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
583] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
584] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
585] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
586] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
587] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
588] 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.
589] 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
590] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
591] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
592] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
593] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
594] 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
595] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
596] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
597] 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
598] 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.
599] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
600] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)