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1] 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)
2] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
3] 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)
4] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
5] 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).
6] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
7] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
8] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
9] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
10] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
11] 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.
12] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
13] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
14] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
15] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
16] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
17] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
18] 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.
19] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
20] 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.
21] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
22] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
23] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
24] 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)
25] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
26] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
27] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
28] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
29] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
30] 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
31] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
32] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
33] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
34] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
35] 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
36] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
37] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
38] 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
39] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
40] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
41] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
42] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
43] 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
44] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
45] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
46] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
47] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
48] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
49] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
50] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
51] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
52] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
53] 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
54] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
55] 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)
56] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
57] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
58] 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.
59] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
60] 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
61] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
62] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
63] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
64] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
65] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
66] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
67] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
68] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
69] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
70] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
71] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
72] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
73] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
74] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
75] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
76] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
77] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
78] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
79] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
80] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
81] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
82] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
83] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
84] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
85] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
86] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
87] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
88] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
89] 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)
90] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
91] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
92] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
93] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
94] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
95] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
96] 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
97] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
98] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
99] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
100] 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.
101] 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
102] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
103] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
104] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
105] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
106] 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
107] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
108] 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.
109] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
110] 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
111] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
112] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
113] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
114] 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
115] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
116] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
117] 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)
118] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
119] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
120] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
121] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
122] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
123] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
124] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
125] 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
126] 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
127] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
128] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
129] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
130] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
131] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
132] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
133] 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
134] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
135] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
136] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
137] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
138] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
139] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
140] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
141] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
142] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
143] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
144] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
145] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
146] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
147] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
148] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
149] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
150] 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
151] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
152] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
153] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
154] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
155] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
156] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
157] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
158] 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.
159] 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.
160] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
161] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
162] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
163] 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)
164] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
165] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
166] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
167] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
168] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
169] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
170] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
171] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
172] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
173] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
174] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
175] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
176] 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)
177] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
178] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
179] 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.
180] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
181] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
182] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
183] 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.
184] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
185] 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.
186] 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)
187] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
188] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
189] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
190] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
191] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
192] 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.
193] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
194] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
195] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
196] 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)
197] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
198] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
199] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
200] 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
201] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
202] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
203] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
204] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
205] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
206] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
207] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
208] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
209] 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.
210] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
211] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
212] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
213] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
214] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
215] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
216] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
217] 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.
218] 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.
219] 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.
220] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
221] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
222] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
223] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
224] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
225] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
226] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
227] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
228] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
229] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
230] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
231] 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
232] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
233] 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
234] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
235] 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
236] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
237] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
238] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
239] 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.
240] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
241] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
242] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
243] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
244] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
245] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
246] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
247] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
248] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
249] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
250] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
251] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
252] 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.
253] 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.
254] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
255] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
256] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
257] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
258] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
259] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
260] 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.
261] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
262] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
263] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
264] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
265] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
266] 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.
267] 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
268] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
269] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
270] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
271] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
272] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
273] 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.
274] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
275] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
276] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
277] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
278] 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)
279] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
280] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
281] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
282] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
283] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
284] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
285] 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.
286] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
287] 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.
288] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
289] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
290] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
291] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
292] 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
293] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
294] 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
295] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
296] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
297] 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
298] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
299] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
300] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
301] 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
302] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
303] 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.
304] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
305] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
306] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
307] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
308] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
309] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
310] 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)
311] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
312] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
313] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
314] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
315] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
316] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
317] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
318] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
319] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
320] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
321] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
322] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
323] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
324] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
325] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
326] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
327] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
328] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
329] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
330] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
331] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
332] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
333] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
334] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
335] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
336] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
337] 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.
338] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
339] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
340] 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.
341] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
342] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
343] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
344] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
345] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
346] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
347] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
348] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
349] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
350] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
351] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
352] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
353] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
354] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
355] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
356] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
357] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
358] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
359] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
360] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
361] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
362] 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.
363] 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)
364] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
365] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
366] 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.
367] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
368] 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.
369] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
370] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
371] 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.
372] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
373] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
374] 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.
375] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
376] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
377] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
378] 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
379] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
380] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
381] 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.
382] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
383] 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
384] 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)
385] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
386] 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.
387] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
388] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
389] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
390] 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.
391] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
392] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
393] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
394] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
395] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
396] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
397] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
398] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
399] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
400] 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.
401] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
402] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
403] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
404] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
405] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
406] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
407] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
408] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
409] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
410] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
411] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
412] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
413] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
414] 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.
415] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
416] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
417] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
418] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
419] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
420] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
421] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
422] 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
423] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
424] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
425] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
426] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
427] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
428] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
429] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
430] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
431] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
432] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
433] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
434] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
435] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
436] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
437] 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
438] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
439] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
440] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
441] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
442] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
443] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
444] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
445] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
446] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
447] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
448] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
449] 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
450] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
451] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
452] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
453] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
454] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
455] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
456] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
457] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
458] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
459] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
460] 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
461] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
462] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
463] 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.
464] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
465] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
466] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
467] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
468] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
469] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
470] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
471] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
472] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
473] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
474] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
475] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
476] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
477] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
478] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
479] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
480] 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)
481] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
482] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
483] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
484] 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.
485] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
486] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
487] Commonsense is not so common.
488] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
489] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
490] 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.
491] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
492] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
493] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
494] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
495] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
496] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
497] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
498] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
499] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
500] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
501] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
502] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
503] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
504] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
505] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
506] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
507] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
508] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
509] 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).
510] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
511] 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.
512] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
513] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
514] 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
515] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
516] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
517] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
518] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
519] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
520] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
521] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
522] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
523] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
524] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
525] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
526] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
527] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
528] 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.
529] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
530] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
531] 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.
532] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
533] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
534] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
535] 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.
536] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
537] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
538] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
539] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
540] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
541] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
542] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
543] 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
544] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
545] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
546] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
547] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
548] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
549] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
550] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
551] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
552] 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
553] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
554] 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
555] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
556] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
557] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
558] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
559] 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.
560] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
561] 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.
562] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
563] 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
564] 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.
565] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
566] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
567] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
568] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
569] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
570] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
571] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
572] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
573] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
574] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
575] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
576] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
577] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
578] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
579] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
580] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
581] 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.
582] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
583] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
584] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
585] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
586] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
587] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
588] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
589] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
590] 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)
591] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
592] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
593] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
594] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
595] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
596] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
597] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
598] 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.
599] 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
600] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.