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1] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
2] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
3] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
4] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
5] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
6] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
7] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
8] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
9] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
10] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
11] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
12] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
13] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
14] 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
15] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
16] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
17] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
18] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
19] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
20] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
21] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
22] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
23] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
24] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
25] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
26] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
27] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
28] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
29] 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.
30] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
31] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
32] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
33] 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
34] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
35] 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
36] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
37] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
38] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
39] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
40] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
41] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
43] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
44] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
45] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
46] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
47] 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.
48] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
49] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
50] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
51] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
52] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
53] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
54] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
55] 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).
56] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
57] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
58] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
59] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
60] 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)
61] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
62] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
63] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
64] 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
65] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
66] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
67] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
68] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
69] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
70] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
71] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
72] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
73] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
74] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
75] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
76] 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)
77] 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
78] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
79] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
80] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
81] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
82] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
83] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
84] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
85] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
86] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
87] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
88] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
89] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
90] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
91] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
92] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
93] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
94] 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.
95] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
96] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
97] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
98] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
99] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
100] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
101] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
102] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
103] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
104] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
105] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
106] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
107] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
108] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
109] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
110] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
111] 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.
112] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
113] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
114] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
115] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
116] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
117] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
118] 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.
119] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
120] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
121] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
122] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
123] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
124] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
125] 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.
126] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
127] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
128] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
129] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
130] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
131] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
132] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
133] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
134] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
135] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
136] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
137] 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.
138] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
139] 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
140] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
141] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
142] Man is a rope connecting animal and super man – a rope over a precipe. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
143] 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
144] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
145] 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.”
146] 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.
147] 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.
148] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
149] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
150] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
151] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
152] 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.
153] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
154] 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.
155] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
156] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
157] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
158] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
159] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
160] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
161] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
162] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
163] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
164] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
165] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
166] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
167] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
168] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
169] 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)
170] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
171] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
172] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
173] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
174] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
175] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
176] 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
177] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
178] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
179] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
180] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
181] 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)
182] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
183] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
184] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
185] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
186] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
187] 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.
188] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
189] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
190] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
191] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
192] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
193] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
194] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
195] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
196] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
197] 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
198] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
199] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
200] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
201] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
202] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
203] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
204] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
205] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
206] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
207] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
208] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
209] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
210] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
211] 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.
212] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
213] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
214] 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.
215] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
216] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
217] 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)
218] 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.
219] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
220] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
221] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
222] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
223] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] 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
225] 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
226] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
227] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
228] 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.
229] 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.
230] 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
231] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
232] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
233] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
234] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
235] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
236] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
237] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
238] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
239] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
240] 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.
241] 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
242] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
243] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
244] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
245] 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
246] 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
247] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
248] 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
249] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
250] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
251] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
252] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
253] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
254] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
255] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
256] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
257] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
258] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
259] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
260] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
261] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
262] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
263] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
264] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
265] 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.
266] 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.
267] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
268] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
269] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
270] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
271] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
272] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
273] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
274] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
275] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
276] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
277] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
278] 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.
279] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
280] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
281] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
282] 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.
283] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
284] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
285] 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.”
286] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
287] 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)
288] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
289] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
290] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
291] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
292] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
293] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
294] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
295] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
296] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
297] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
298] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
299] 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)
300] 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)
301] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
302] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
303] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
304] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
305] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
306] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
307] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
308] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
309] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
310] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
311] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
312] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
313] 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
314] 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.
315] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
316] 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
317] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
318] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
319] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
320] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
321] 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.
322] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
323] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
324] 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
325] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
326] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
327] 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
328] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
329] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
330] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
331] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
332] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
333] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
334] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
335] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
336] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
337] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
338] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
339] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
340] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
341] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
342] 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.
343] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
344] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
345] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
346] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
347] 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)
348] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
349] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
350] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
351] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
352] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
353] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
354] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
355] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
356] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
357] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
358] 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.
359] 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)
360] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
361] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
362] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
363] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
364] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
365] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
366] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
367] 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.
368] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
369] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
370] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
371] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
372] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
373] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
374] 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
375] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
376] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
377] 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.
378] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
379] 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
380] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
381] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
382] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
383] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
384] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
385] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
386] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
387] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
388] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
389] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
390] 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.
391] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
392] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
393] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
394] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
395] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
396] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
397] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
398] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
399] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
400] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
401] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
402] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
403] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
404] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
405] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
406] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
407] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
408] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
409] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
410] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
411] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
412] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
413] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
414] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
415] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
416] 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
417] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
418] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
419] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
420] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
421] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
422] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
423] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
424] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
425] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
426] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
427] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
428] 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.
429] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
430] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
431] 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
432] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
433] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
434] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
435] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
436] 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.
437] 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.
438] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
439] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
440] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
441] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
442] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
443] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
444] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
445] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
446] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
447] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
448] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
449] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
450] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
451] 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
452] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
453] 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.
454] 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)
455] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
456] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
457] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
458] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
459] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
460] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
461] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
462] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
463] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
464] 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)
465] 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.
466] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
467] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
468] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
469] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
470] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
471] 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.
472] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
473] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
474] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
475] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
476] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
477] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
478] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
479] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
480] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
481] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
482] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
483] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
484] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
485] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
486] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
487] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
488] 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)
489] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
490] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
491] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
492] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
493] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
494] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
495] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
496] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
497] 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
498] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
499] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
500] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
501] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
502] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
503] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
504] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
505] 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
506] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
507] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
508] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
509] 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.
510] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
511] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
512] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
513] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
514] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
515] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
516] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
517] 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)
518] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
519] 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.
520] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
521] 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
522] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
523] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
524] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
525] 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)
526] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
527] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
528] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
529] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
530] 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.
531] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
532] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
533] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
534] 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
535] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
536] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
538] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
539] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
540] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
541] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
542] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
543] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
544] 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
545] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
546] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
547] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
548] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
549] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
550] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
551] 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
552] 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.
553] 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)
554] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
555] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
556] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
557] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
558] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
559] 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
560] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
561] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
562] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
563] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
564] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
565] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
566] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
567] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
568] 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.
569] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
570] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
571] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
572] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
573] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
574] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
575] 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)
576] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
577] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
578] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
579] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
580] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
581] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
582] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
583] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
584] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
585] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
586] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
587] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
588] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
589] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
590] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
591] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
592] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
593] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
594] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
595] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
596] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
597] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
598] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
599] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
600] 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)