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1] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
2] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
3] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
4] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
5] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
6] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
7] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
8] 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).
9] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
10] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
11] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
12] 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
13] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
14] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
15] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
16] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
17] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
18] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
19] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
20] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
21] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
22] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
23] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
24] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
25] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
26] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
27] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
28] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
29] 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.
30] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
31] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
32] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
33] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
34] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
35] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
36] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
37] 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.
38] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
39] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40] 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
41] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
42] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
43] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
44] 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)
45] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
46] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
47] 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.
48] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
49] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
50] 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)
51] 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
52] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
53] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
54] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
55] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
56] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
57] 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.
58] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
59] 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.
60] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
61] 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
62] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
63] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
65] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
66] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
67] 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.
68] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
69] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
70] 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.
71] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
72] 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
73] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
74] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
75] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
76] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
77] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
78] 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
79] 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.
80] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
81] 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.
82] 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.
83] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
84] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
85] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
86] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
87] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
88] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
89] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
90] 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
91] 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)
92] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
93] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
94] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
95] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
96] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
97] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
98] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
99] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
100] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
101] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
102] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
103] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
104] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
105] 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
106] 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.
107] 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
108] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
109] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
110] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
111] 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)
112] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
113] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
114] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
115] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
116] 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
117] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
118] 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
119] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
120] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
121] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
122] 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
123] 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)
124] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
125] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
126] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
127] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
128] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
129] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
130] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
131] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
132] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
133] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
134] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
135] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
136] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
137] 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.
138] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
139] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
140] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
141] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
142] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
143] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
144] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
145] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
146] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
147] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
148] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
149] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
150] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
151] 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.
152] 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)
153] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
154] 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
155] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
156] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
157] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
158] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
159] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
160] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
161] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
162] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
163] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
164] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
165] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
166] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
167] 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.
168] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
169] 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.
170] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
171] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
172] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
173] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
174] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
175] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
176] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
177] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
178] 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.
179] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
180] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
181] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
182] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
183] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
184] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
185] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
186] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
187] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
188] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
189] 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.
190] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
191] 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
192] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
193] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
194] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
195] 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)
196] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
197] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
198] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
199] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
200] 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.
201] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
202] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
203] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
204] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
205] 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.
206] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
207] 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
208] 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
209] 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.
210] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
211] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
212] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
213] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
214] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
215] 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.
216] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
217] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
218] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
219] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
220] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
221] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
222] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
223] 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.
224] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
225] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
226] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
227] 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.
228] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
229] 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.
230] 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
231] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
232] 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)
233] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
234] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
235] 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
236] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
237] Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. The less on that most of
Richard. M. Nixon
238] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
239] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
240] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
241] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
242] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
243] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
244] 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
245] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
246] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
247] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
248] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
249] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
250] 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)
251] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
252] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
253] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
254] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
255] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
256] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
257] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
258] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
259] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
260] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
261] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
262] 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)
263] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
264] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
265] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
266] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
267] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
268] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
269] 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
270] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
271] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
272] 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
273] 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.
274] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
275] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
276] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
277] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
278] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
279] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
280] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
281] 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
282] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
283] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
284] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
285] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
286] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
287] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
288] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
289] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
290] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
291] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
292] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
293] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
294] 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.
295] 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.
296] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
297] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
298] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
299] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
300] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
301] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
302] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
303] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
304] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
305] 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.
306] 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.
307] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
308] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
309] 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
310] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
311] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
312] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
313] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
314] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
315] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
316] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
317] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
318] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
319] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
320] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
321] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
322] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
323] 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).
324] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
325] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
326] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
327] 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
328] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
329] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
330] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
331] 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.
332] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
333] 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.
334] 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.
335] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
336] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
337] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
338] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
339] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
340] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
341] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
342] 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.
343] 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
344] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
345] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
347] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
348] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
349] 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
350] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
351] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
352] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
353] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
354] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
355] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
356] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
357] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
358] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
359] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
360] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
361] 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
362] 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
363] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
364] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
365] 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
366] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
367] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
368] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
369] 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
370] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
371] 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).
372] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
373] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
374] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
375] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
376] 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.
377] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
378] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
379] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
380] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
381] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
382] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
383] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
384] 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)
385] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
386] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
387] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
388] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
389] 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.”
390] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
391] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
392] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
393] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
394] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
395] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
396] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
397] 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)
398] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
399] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
400] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
401] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
402] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
403] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
404] 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)
405] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
406] 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)
407] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
408] 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.
409] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
410] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
411] 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)
412] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
413] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
414] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
415] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
416] 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
417] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
418] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
419] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
420] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
421] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
422] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
423] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
424] 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.
425] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
426] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
427] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
428] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
429] 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.
430] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
431] 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.
432] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
433] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
434] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
435] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
436] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
437] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
438] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
439] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
440] 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.
441] 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
442] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
443] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
444] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
445] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
446] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
447] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
448] 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.
449] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
450] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
451] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
452] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
453] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
454] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
455] 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)
456] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
457] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
458] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
459] 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.
460] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
461] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
462] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
463] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
464] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
465] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
466] 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
467] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
468] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
469] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
470] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
471] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
472] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
473] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
474] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
475] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
476] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
477] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
478] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
479] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
480] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
481] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
482] 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.
483] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
484] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
485] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
486] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
487] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
488] 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
489] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
490] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
491] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
492] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
493] 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
494] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
495] 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.
496] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
497] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
498] 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
499] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
500] 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.
501] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
502] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
503] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
504] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
505] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
506] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
507] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
508] 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.
509] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
510] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
511] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
512] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
513] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
514] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
515] 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.
516] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
517] 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.
518] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
519] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
520] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
521] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
522] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
523] 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
524] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
525] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
526] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
527] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
528] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
529] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
530] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
531] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
532] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
533] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
534] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
535] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
536] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
537] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
538] 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.
539] 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
540] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
541] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
542] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
543] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
544] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
545] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
546] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
547] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
548] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
549] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
550] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
551] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
552] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
553] 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
554] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
555] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
556] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
557] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
558] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
559] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
560] 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)
561] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
562] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
563] 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
564] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
565] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
566] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
567] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
568] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
569] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
570] 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.
571] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
572] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
573] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
574] 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
575] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
576] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
577] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
578] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
579] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
580] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
581] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
582] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
583] Commonsense is not so common.
584] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
585] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
586] 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.
587] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
588] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
589] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
590] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
591] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
592] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
593] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
594] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
595] 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
596] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
597] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
598] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
599] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
600] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana