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1] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
2] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
3] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
4] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
5] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
6] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
7] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
8] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
9] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
10] 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)
11] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
12] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
13] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
14] 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
15] 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
16] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
17] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
18] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
19] 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
20] 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.
21] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
22] 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)
23] 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.
24] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
25] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
26] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
27] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
28] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
29] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
30] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
31] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
32] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
33] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
34] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
35] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
36] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
37] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
39] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
40] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
41] 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
42] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
43] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
44] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
45] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
46] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
47] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
48] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
49] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
50] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
51] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
52] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
53] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
54] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
55] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
56] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
57] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
58] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
59] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
60] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
61] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
62] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
63] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
64] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
65] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
66] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
67] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
68] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
69] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
70] 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)
71] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
72] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
73] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
74] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
75] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
76] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
77] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
78] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
79] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
80] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
81] 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
82] 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
83] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
84] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
85] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
86] 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
87] 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.
88] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
89] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
90] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
91] 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
92] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
93] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
94] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
95] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
96] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
97] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
98] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
99] 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.
100] 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.
101] 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
102] 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
103] 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
104] 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)
105] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
106] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
107] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
108] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
109] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
110] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
111] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
112] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
113] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
114] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
115] 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.
116] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
117] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
118] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
119] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
120] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
121] 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.
122] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
123] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
124] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
125] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
126] 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.
127] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
128] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
129] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
130] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
131] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
132] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
133] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
134] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
135] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
136] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
137] 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.
138] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
139] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
140] 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.
141] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
142] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
143] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
144] 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.
145] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
146] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
147] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
148] 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.
149] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
150] 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.
151] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
152] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
153] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
154] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
155] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
156] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
157] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
158] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
159] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
160] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
161] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
162] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
163] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
164] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
165] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
166] 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)
167] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
168] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
169] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
170] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
171] 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.
172] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
173] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
174] 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
175] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
176] 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)
177] 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
178] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
179] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
180] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
181] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
182] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
183] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
184] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
185] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
186] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
187] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
188] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
189] 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)
190] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
191] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
192] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
193] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
194] 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.
195] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
196] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
197] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
198] 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)
199] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
200] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
201] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
202] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
203] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
204] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
205] 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.
206] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
207] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
208] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
209] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
210] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
211] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
212] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
213] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
214] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
215] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
216] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
217] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
218] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
219] 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)
220] 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)
221] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
222] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
223] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
224] 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.
225] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
226] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
227] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
228] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
229] 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.
230] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
231] 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
232] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
233] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
234] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
235] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
236] 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.
237] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
238] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
239] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
240] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
241] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
242] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
243] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
244] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
245] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
246] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
247] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
248] 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.
249] 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.
250] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
251] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
252] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
253] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
254] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
255] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
256] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
257] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
258] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
259] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
260] 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
261] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
262] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
263] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
264] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
265] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
266] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
267] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
268] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
269] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
270] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
271] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
272] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
273] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
274] 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
275] 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.
276] 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)
277] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
278] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
279] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
280] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
281] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
282] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
283] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
284] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
285] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
286] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
287] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
288] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
289] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
290] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
291] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
292] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
293] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
294] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
295] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
296] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
297] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
298] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
299] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
300] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
301] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
302] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
303] 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
304] 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.
305] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
306] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
307] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
308] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
309] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
310] 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.
311] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
312] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
313] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
314] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
315] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
316] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
317] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
318] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
319] 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)
320] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
321] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
322] 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.
323] 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.
324] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
325] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
326] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
327] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
328] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
329] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
330] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
331] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
332] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
333] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
334] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
335] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
336] 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.
337] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
338] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
339] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
340] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
341] 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
342] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
343] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
344] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
345] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
346] 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.
347] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
348] 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.
349] 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.
350] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
351] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
352] 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.
353] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
354] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
355] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
356] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
357] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
358] 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
359] 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)
360] 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.
361] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
362] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
363] 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)
364] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
365] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
366] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
367] 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
368] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
369] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
370] 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.
371] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
372] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
373] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
374] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
376] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
377] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
378] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
379] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
380] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
381] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
382] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
383] 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.
384] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
385] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
386] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
387] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
388] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
389] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
390] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
391] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
392] 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
393] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
394] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
395] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
396] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
397] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
398] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
399] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
400] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
401] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
402] 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.
403] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
404] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
405] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
406] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
407] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
408] 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.
409] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
410] 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
411] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
412] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
413] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
414] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
415] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
416] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
417] 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.
418] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
419] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
420] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
421] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
422] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
423] 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
424] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
425] 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)
426] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
427] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
428] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
429] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
430] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
431] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
432] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
433] 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.
434] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
435] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
436] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
437] 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
438] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
439] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
440] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
441] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
442] 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.
443] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
444] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
445] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
446] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
447] 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
448] 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.
449] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
450] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
451] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
452] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
453] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
454] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
456] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
457] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
458] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
459] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
460] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
461] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
462] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
463] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
464] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
465] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
466] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
467] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
468] 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
469] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
470] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
471] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
472] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
473] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
474] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
475] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
476] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
477] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
478] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
479] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
480] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
481] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
482] Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
483] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
484] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
485] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
486] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
487] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
488] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
489] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
490] 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.
491] 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).
492] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
493] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
494] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
495] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
496] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
497] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
498] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
499] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
500] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
501] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
502] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
503] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
504] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
505] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
506] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
507] 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
508] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
509] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
510] If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would if no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Pope Gregory I
511] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
512] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
513] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
514] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
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] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
517] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
518] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
519] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
520] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
521] 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
522] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
523] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
524] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
525] 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.
526] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
527] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
528] 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.
529] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
530] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
531] 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
532] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
533] 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
534] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
535] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
536] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
537] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
538] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
539] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
540] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
541] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
542] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
543] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
544] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
545] 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
546] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
547] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
548] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
549] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
550] 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
551] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
552] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
553] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
554] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
555] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
556] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
557] 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)
558] 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
559] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
560] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
561] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
562] 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.
563] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
564] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
565] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
566] 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)
567] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
568] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
569] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
570] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
571] 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
572] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
573] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
574] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
575] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
576] 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.
577] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
578] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
579] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
580] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
581] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
582] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
583] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
584] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
585] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
586] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
587] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
588] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
589] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
590] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
591] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
592] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
593] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
594] 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
595] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
596] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
597] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
598] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
599] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
600] 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.