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1] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
2] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
3] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
4] 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
5] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
6] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
7] 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)
8] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
9] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
10] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
11] 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.
12] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
13] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
14] 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.
15] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
16] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
19] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
20] 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
21] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
22] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
23] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
24] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
25] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
26] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
27] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
28] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
29] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
30] 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.
31] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
32] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
33] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
34] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
35] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
36] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
37] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
38] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
39] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
40] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
41] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
42] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
43] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
44] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
45] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
46] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
47] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
48] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
49] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
50] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
51] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
52] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
53] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
54] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
55] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
56] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
57] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
58] 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.
59] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
60] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
61] 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)
62] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
63] 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.
64] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
65] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
66] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
67] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
68] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
69] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
70] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
71] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
72] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
73] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
74] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
75] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
76] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
77] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
78] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
79] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
80] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
81] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
82] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
83] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
84] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
85] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
86] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
87] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
88] 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)
89] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
90] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
91] 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.
92] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
93] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
94] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
95] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
96] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
97] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
98] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
99] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
100] 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).
101] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
102] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
103] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
104] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
105] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
106] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
107] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
108] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
109] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
110] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
111] 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.
112] 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
113] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
114] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
115] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
116] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
117] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
118] 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)
119] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
120] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
121] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
122] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
123] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
124] 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 .
125] 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
126] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
127] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
128] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
129] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
130] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
131] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
132] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
133] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
134] 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)
135] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
136] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
137] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
138] 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.
139] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
140] 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
141] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
142] 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
143] 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.
144] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
145] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
146] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
147] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
148] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
149] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
150] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
151] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
152] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
153] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
154] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
155] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
156] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
157] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
158] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
159] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
160] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
161] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
162] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
163] 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.
164] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
165] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
166] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
167] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
168] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
169] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
170] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
171] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
172] 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.
173] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
174] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
175] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
176] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
177] 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.
178] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
179] 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
180] A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
181] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
182] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
183] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
184] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
185] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
186] 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
187] 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]
188] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
189] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
190] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
191] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
192] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
193] 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
194] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
195] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
196] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
197] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
198] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
199] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
200] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
201] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
202] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
203] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
204] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
205] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
206] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
207] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
208] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
209] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
210] 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)
211] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
212] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
213] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
214] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
215] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
216] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
217] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
218] 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
219] 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.
220] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
221] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
222] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
223] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
224] 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.
225] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
226] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
227] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
228] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
229] 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
230] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
231] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
232] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
233] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
234] 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.
235] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
236] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
237] 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)
238] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
239] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
240] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
241] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
242] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
243] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
244] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
245] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
246] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
247] 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.
248] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
249] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
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] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
252] 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.
253] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
254] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
255] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
256] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
257] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
258] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
259] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
260] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
261] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
262] 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.
263] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
264] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
265] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
266] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
267] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
268] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
269] 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
270] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
271] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
272] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
273] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
274] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
275] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
276] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
277] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
278] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
279] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
280] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
281] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
282] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
283] 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
284] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
285] 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.
286] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
287] 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.
288] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
289] 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.
290] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
291] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
292] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
293] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
294] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
295] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
296] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
297] 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
298] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
299] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
300] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
301] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
302] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
303] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
304] 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)
305] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
306] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] 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.
308] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
309] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
310] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
311] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
312] 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.
313] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
314] 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)
315] 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)
316] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
317] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
318] 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
319] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
320] 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.
321] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
322] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
323] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
324] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
325] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
326] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
327] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
328] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
329] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
330] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
331] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
332] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
333] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
334] 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 .
335] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
336] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
337] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
338] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
339] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
340] 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.
341] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
342] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
343] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
344] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
345] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
346] 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.
347] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
348] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
349] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
350] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
351] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
352] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
353] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
354] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
355] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
356] 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
357] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
358] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
359] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
360] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
361] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
362] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
363] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
364] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
365] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
366] 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.
367] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
368] 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.
369] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
370] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
371] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
372] 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
373] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
374] 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
375] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
376] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
377] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
378] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
379] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
380] 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.
381] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
382] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
383] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
384] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
385] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
386] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
387] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
388] 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
389] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
390] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
391] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
392] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
393] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
394] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
395] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
396] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
397] 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.
398] Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann. W. Von Goethe.
399] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
400] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
401] 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.
402] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
403] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
404] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
405] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
406] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
407] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
408] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
409] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
410] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
411] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
412] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
413] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
414] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
415] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
416] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
417] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
418] 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)
419] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
420] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
421] 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.
422] 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.
423] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
424] 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.
425] 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.
426] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
427] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
428] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
429] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
430] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
431] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
432] 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.
433] 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
434] 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
435] 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)
436] 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.
437] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
438] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
439] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
440] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
441] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
442] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
443] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
444] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
445] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
446] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
447] 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
448] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
449] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
450] 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
451] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
452] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
453] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
454] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
455] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
456] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
457] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
458] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
459] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
460] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
461] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
462] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
463] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
464] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
465] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
466] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
467] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
468] 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.
469] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
470] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
471] 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)
472] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
473] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
474] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
475] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
476] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
477] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
478] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
479] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
480] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
481] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
482] 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
483] 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
484] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
485] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
486] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
487] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
488] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
489] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
490] 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)
491] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
492] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
493] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
494] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
495] 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.
496] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
497] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
498] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
499] 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.
500] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
501] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
502] 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)
503] 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.
504] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
505] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
506] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
507] 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.
508] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
509] 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.
510] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
511] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
512] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
513] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
514] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
515] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
516] 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
517] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
518] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
519] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
520] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
521] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
522] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
523] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
524] 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.
525] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
526] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
527] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
528] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
529] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
530] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
531] 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.
532] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
533] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
534] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
535] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
536] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
537] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
538] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
539] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
540] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
541] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
542] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
543] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
544] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
545] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
546] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
547] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
548] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
549] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
550] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
551] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
552] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
553] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
554] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
555] There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, therefore it is good.” The other says, “ This is new, therefore it is better.”
556] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
557] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
558] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
559] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
560] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
561] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
562] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
563] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
564] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
565] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
566] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
567] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
568] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
569] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
570] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
571] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
572] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
573] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
574] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
575] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
576] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
577] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
578] 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.
579] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
580] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
581] 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
582] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
583] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
584] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
585] 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
586] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
587] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
588] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
589] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
590] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
591] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
592] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
593] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
594] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
595] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
596] 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.
597] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
598] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
599] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
600] 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