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1] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
2] 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.
3] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
4] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
5] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
6] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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7] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
8] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
9] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
10] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
11] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
12] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
13] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
14] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
15] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
16] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
17] 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.
18] 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
19] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
20] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
21] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
22] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
23] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
24] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
25] 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)
26] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
27] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
28] 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)
29] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
30] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
31] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
32] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
33] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
34] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
35] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
36] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
37] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
38] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
39] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
40] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
41] 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
42] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
43] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
44] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
45] The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his order from one who does. [ If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no sense making them.]
Herbert. V. Prochnow
46] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
47] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
48] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
49] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
50] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
51] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
52] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
53] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
54] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
55] 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
56] 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)
57] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
58] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
59] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
60] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
61] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
62] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
63] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
64] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
65] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
66] 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
67] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
68] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
69] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
70] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
71] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
72] 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
73] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
74] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
75] 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.
76] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
77] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
78] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
79] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
80] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
81] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
82] 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.
83] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
84] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
85] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
86] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
87] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
88] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
89] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
90] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
91] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
92] 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.
93] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
94] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
95] 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
96] 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.
97] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
98] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
99] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
100] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
101] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
102] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
103] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
104] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
105] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
106] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
107] 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.
108] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
109] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
110] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
111] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
112] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
113] 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
114] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
115] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
116] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
117] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
118] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
119] 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
120] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
121] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
122] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
123] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
124] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
125] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
126] 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
127] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
128] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
129] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
130] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
131] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
132] 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
133] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
134] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
135] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
136] 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)
137] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
138] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
139] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
140] 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.
141] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
142] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
143] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
144] 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)
145] 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.
146] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
147] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
148] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
149] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
150] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
151] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
152] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
153] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
154] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
155] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
156] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
157] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
158] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
159] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
160] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
161] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
162] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
163] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
164] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
165] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
166] 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)
167] 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.
168] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
169] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
170] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
171] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
172] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
173] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
174] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
175] 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.
176] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
177] 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.
178] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
179] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
180] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
181] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
182] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
183] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
184] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
185] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
186] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
187] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
188] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
189] 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
190] 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
191] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
192] 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.
193] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
194] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
195] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
196] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
197] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
198] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
199] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
200] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
201] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
202] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
203] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
204] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
205] 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.
206] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
207] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
208] 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
209] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
210] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
211] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
212] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
213] 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).
214] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
215] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
216] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
217] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
218] 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
219] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
220] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
221] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
222] 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
223] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
224] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
225] 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.
226] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
227] 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
228] 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.
229] 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.
230] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
231] 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.
232] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
233] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
234] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
235] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
236] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
237] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
238] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
239] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
240] 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
241] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
242] 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
243] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
244] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
245] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
246] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
247] 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.
248] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
249] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
250] 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.
251] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
252] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
253] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
254] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
255] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
256] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
257] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
258] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
259] 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.
260] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
261] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
262] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
263] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
264] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
265] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
266] 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.
267] 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
268] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
269] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
270] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
271] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
272] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
273] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
274] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
275] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
276] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
277] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
278] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
279] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
280] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
281] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
282] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
283] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
284] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
285] 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.
286] 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)
287] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
288] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
289] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
290] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
291] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
292] 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
293] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
294] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
295] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
296] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
297] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
298] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
299] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
300] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
301] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
302] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
303] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
304] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
305] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
306] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
307] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
308] 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.
309] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
310] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
311] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
312] 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)
313] 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.
314] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
315] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
316] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
317] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
318] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
319] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
320] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
321] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
322] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
323] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
324] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
325] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
326] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
327] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
328] 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)
329] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
330] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
331] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
332] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
333] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
334] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
335] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
336] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
337] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
338] 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.
339] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
340] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
341] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
342] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
343] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
344] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
345] 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
346] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
347] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
348] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
349] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
350] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
351] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
352] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
353] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
354] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
355] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
356] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
357] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
358] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
359] 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.
360] 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)
361] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
362] 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.
363] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
364] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
365] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
366] 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.
367] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
368] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
369] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
370] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
371] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
372] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
373] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
374] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
375] 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
376] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
377] 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.
378] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
379] 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
380] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
381] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
382] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
383] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
384] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
385] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
386] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
387] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
388] 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.
389] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
390] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
391] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
392] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
393] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
394] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
395] 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.
396] 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
397] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
398] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
399] 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.
400] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
401] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
402] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
403] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
404] 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.
405] 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.
406] 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)
407] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
408] 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)
409] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
410] 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
411] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
412] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
413] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
414] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
415] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
416] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
417] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
418] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
419] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
420] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
421] 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
422] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
423] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
424] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
425] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
426] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
427] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
428] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
429] 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.
430] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
431] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
432] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
433] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
434] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
435] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
436] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
437] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
438] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
439] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
440] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
441] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
442] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
443] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
444] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
445] 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)
446] 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]
447] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
448] 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
449] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
450] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
451] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
452] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
453] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
454] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
455] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
456] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
457] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
458] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
459] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
460] 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
461] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
462] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
463] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
464] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
465] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
466] 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.
467] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
468] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
469] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
470] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
471] 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.
472] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
473] 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
474] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
475] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
476] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
477] 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
478] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
479] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
480] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
481] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
482] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
483] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
484] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
485] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
486] 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)
487] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
488] 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.
489] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
490] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
491] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
492] 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
493] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
494] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
495] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
496] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
497] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
498] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
499] 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
500] 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.
501] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
502] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
503] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
504] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
505] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
506] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
507] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
508] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
509] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
510] 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
511] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
512] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
513] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
514] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
515] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
516] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
517] 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
518] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
519] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
520] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
521] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
522] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
523] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
524] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
525] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
526] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
527] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
528] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
529] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
530] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
531] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
532] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
533] 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).
534] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
535] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
536] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
537] 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)
538] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
539] 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.
540] 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.
541] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
542] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
543] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
544] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
545] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
546] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
547] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
548] 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
549] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
550] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
551] 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
552] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
553] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
554] 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.
555] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
556] 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.
557] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
558] 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.
559] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
560] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
561] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
562] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
563] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
564] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
565] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
566] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
567] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
568] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
569] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
570] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
571] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
572] 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)
573] Commonsense is not so common.
574] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
575] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
576] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
577] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
578] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
579] 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)
580] 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.
581] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
582] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
583] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
584] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
585] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
586] 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.
587] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
588] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
589] 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.
590] 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
591] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
592] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
593] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
594] 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)
595] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
596] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
597] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
598] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
599] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
600] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.