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1] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
2] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
3] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
4] 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.
5] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
6] 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.
7] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
8] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
9] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
10] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
11] 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)
12] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
13] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
14] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
15] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
16] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
17] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
18] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
19] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
20] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
21] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
22] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
23] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
24] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
25] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
26] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
27] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
28] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
29] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
30] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
31] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
32] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
33] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
34] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
35] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
36] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
37] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
38] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
39] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
40] 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
41] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
42] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
43] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
44] 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.
45] 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
46] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
47] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
48] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
49] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
50] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
51] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
52] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
53] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
54] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
55] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
56] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
57] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
58] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
59] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
60] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
61] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
62] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
63] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
64] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
65] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
66] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
67] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
68] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
69] 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)
70] 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.
71] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
72] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
73] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
74] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
75] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
76] 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
77] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
78] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
79] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
80] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
81] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
82] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
83] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
84] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
85] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
86] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
87] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
88] 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.
89] 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.”
90] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
91] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
92] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
93] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
94] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
95] 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.
96] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
97] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
98] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
99] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
100] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
101] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
102] 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.
103] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
104] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
105] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
106] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
107] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
108] 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
109] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
110] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
111] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
112] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
113] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
114] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
115] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
116] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
117] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
118] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
119] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
120] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
121] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
122] 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
123] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
124] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
125] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
126] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
127] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
128] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
129] 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
130] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
131] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
132] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
133] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
134] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
135] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
136] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
137] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
138] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
139] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
140] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
141] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
142] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
143] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
144] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
145] 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
146] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
147] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
148] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
149] 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
150] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
151] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
152] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
153] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
154] 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.
155] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
156] 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.
157] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
158] 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)
159] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
160] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
161] 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.
162] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
163] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
164] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
165] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
166] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
167] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
168] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
169] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
170] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
171] 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
172] 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
173] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
174] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
175] 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.
176] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
177] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
178] 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
179] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
180] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
181] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
182] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
183] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
184] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
185] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
186] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
187] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
188] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
189] 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.
190] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
191] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
192] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
193] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
194] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
195] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
196] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
197] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
198] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
199] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
200] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
201] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
202] 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)
203] 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.
204] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
205] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
206] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
207] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
208] 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.
209] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
210] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
211] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
212] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
213] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
214] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
215] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
216] 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.
217] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
218] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
219] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
220] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
221] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
222] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
223] 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.
224] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
225] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
226] 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.
227] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
228] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
229] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
230] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
231] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
232] 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
233] 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.
234] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
235] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
236] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
237] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
238] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
239] 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.
240] 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
241] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
242] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
243] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
244] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
245] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
246] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
247] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
248] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
249] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
250] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
251] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
252] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
253] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
254] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
255] 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
256] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
257] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
258] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
259] 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
260] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
261] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
262] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
263] 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
264] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
265] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
266] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
267] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
268] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
269] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
270] 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.
271] 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.
272] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
273] 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
274] 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.
275] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
276] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
277] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
278] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
279] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
280] 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
281] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
282] 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)
283] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
284] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
285] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
286] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
287] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
288] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
289] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
290] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
291] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
292] 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)
293] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
294] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
295] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
296] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
297] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
298] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
299] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
300] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
301] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
302] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
303] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
304] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
305] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
306] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
307] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
308] 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
309] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
310] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
311] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
312] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
313] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
314] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
315] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
316] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
317] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
318] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
319] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
320] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
321] 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.
322] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
323] 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
324] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
325] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
326] 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.
327] 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.
328] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
329] 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.
330] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
331] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
332] 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.
333] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
334] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
335] 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
336] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
337] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
338] 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
339] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
340] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
341] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
342] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
343] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
344] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
345] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
346] 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.
347] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
348] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
349] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
350] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
351] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
352] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
353] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
354] 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
355] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
356] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
357] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
358] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
359] 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.
360] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
361] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
362] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
363] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
364] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
365] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
366] 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.
367] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
368] 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
369] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
370] 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.
371] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
372] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
373] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
374] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
375] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
376] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
377] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
378] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
379] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
380] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
381] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
382] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
383] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
384] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
385] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
386] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
387] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
388] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
389] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
390] 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.
391] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
392] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
393] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
394] 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.
395] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
396] 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
397] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
398] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
399] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
400] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
401] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
402] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
403] 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
404] 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
405] 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.
406] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
407] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
408] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
409] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
410] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
411] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
412] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
413] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
414] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
415] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
416] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
417] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
418] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
419] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
420] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
421] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
422] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
423] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
424] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
425] 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
426] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
427] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
428] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
429] 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
430] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
431] 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.
432] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
433] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
434] 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)
435] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
436] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
437] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
438] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
439] 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
440] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
441] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
442] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
443] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
444] 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
445] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
446] 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)
447] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
448] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
449] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
450] 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.
451] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
452] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
453] 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.
454] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
455] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
456] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
457] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
458] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
459] 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
460] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
461] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
462] 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.
463] 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
464] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
465] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
466] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
467] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
468] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
469] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
470] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
471] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
472] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
473] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
474] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
475] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
476] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
477] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
478] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
479] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
480] 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)
481] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
482] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
483] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
484] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
485] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
486] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
487] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
488] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
489] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
490] 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
491] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
492] 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
493] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
494] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
495] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
496] 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.
497] 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.
498] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
499] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
500] 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
501] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
502] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
503] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
504] 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.
505] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
506] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
507] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
508] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
509] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
510] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
511] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
512] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
513] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
514] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
515] 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
516] 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.
517] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
518] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
519] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
520] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
521] A Christian is a man who feels repentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.
Thomas. R. Ybarra
522] 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)
523] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
524] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
525] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
526] 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.
527] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
528] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
529] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
530] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
531] 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
532] 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
533] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
534] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
535] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
536] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
537] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
538] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
539] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
540] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
541] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
542] 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).
543] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
544] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
545] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
546] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
547] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
548] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
549] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
550] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
551] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
552] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
553] 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
554] 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.
555] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
556] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
557] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
558] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
559] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
560] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
561] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
562] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
563] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
564] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
565] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
566] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
567] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
568] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
569] 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.
570] 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.
571] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
572] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
573] 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)
574] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
575] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
576] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
577] 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).
578] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
579] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
580] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
581] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
582] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
583] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
584] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
585] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
586] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
587] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
588] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
589] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
590] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
591] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
592] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
593] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
594] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
595] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
596] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
597] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
598] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
599] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
600] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.