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1] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
2] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
3] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
4] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
5] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
6] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
7] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
8] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
9] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
10] 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
11] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
12] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
13] 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)
14] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
15] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
16] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
17] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
18] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
19] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
20] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
21] 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
22] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
23] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
24] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
25] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
26] 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.
27] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
28] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
29] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
30] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
31] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
32] 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.
33] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
34] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
35] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
36] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
37] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
38] 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.
39] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
40] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
41] 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)
42] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
43] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
44] 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)
45] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
46] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
47] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
48] 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.
49] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
50] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
51] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
52] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
53] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
54] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
55] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
56] 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
57] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
58] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
59] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
60] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
61] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
62] Commonsense is not so common.
63] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
64] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
65] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
66] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
67] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
68] 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.
69] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
70] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
71] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
72] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
73] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
74] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
75] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
76] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
77] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
78] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
79] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
80] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
81] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
82] 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
83] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
84] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
85] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
86] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
87] 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
88] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
89] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
90] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
91] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
92] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
93] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
94] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
95] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
96] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
97] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
98] 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)
99] 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)
100] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
101] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
102] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
103] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
104] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
105] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
106] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
107] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
108] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
109] 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)
110] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
111] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
112] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
113] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
114] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
115] 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
116] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
117] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
118] 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.
119] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
120] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
121] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
122] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
123] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
124] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
125] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
126] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
127] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
128] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
129] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
130] 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.
131] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
132] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
133] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
134] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
135] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
136] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
137] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
138] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
139] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
140] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
141] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
142] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
143] 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)
144] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
145] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
146] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
147] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
148] 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.
149] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
150] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
151] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
152] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
153] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
154] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
155] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
156] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
157] 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
158] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
159] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
160] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
161] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
162] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
163] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
164] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
165] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
166] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
167] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
168] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
169] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
170] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
171] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
172] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
173] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
174] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
175] 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
176] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
177] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
178] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
179] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
180] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
181] 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
182] 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
183] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
184] 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
185] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
186] When I see the ‘ Ten Most Wanted Lists…’ I always have this thought: I we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now.
Eddie Cantor
187] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
188] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
189] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
190] 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.
191] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
192] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
193] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
194] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
195] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
196] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
197] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
198] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
199] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
200] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
201] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
202] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
203] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
204] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
205] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
206] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
207] 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)
208] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
209] 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.
210] 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.
211] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
212] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
213] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
214] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
215] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
216] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
217] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
218] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
219] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
220] 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 .
221] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
222] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
223] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
224] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
225] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
226] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
227] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
228] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
229] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
230] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
231] 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.
232] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
233] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
234] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
235] 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.
236] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
237] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
238] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
239] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
240] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
241] 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.
242] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
243] 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
244] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
245] 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.
246] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
247] 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
248] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
249] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
250] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
251] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
252] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
253] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
254] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
255] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
256] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
257] 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.
258] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
259] 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
260] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
261] 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
262] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
263] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
264] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
265] 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
266] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
267] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
268] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
269] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
270] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
271] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
272] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
273] 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)
274] 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 .
275] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
276] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
277] 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.
278] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
279] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
280] 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.
281] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
282] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
283] 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.
284] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
285] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
286] 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.
287] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
288] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
289] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
290] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
291] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
292] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
293] 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
294] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
295] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
296] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
297] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
298] 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
299] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
300] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
301] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
302] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
303] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
304] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
305] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
306] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
307] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
308] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
309] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
310] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
311] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
312] 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.
313] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
314] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
315] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
316] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
317] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
318] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
319] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
320] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
321] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
322] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
323] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
324] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
325] 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.
326] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
327] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
328] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
329] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
330] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
331] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
332] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
333] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
334] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
335] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
336] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
337] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
338] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
339] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
340] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
341] 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)
342] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
343] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
344] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
345] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
346] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
347] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
348] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
349] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
350] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
351] 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.
352] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
353] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
354] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
355] 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.
356] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
357] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
358] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
359] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
360] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
361] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
362] There is a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine.
363] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
364] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
365] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
366] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
367] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
368] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
369] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
370] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
371] 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
372] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
373] 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.
374] 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
375] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
376] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
377] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
378] 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)
379] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
380] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
381] 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)
382] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
383] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
384] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
385] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
386] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
387] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
388] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
389] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
390] 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.
391] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
392] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
393] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
394] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
395] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
396] 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.
397] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
398] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
399] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
400] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
401] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
402] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
403] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
404] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
405] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
406] It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900).
407] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
408] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
409] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
410] 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
411] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
412] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
413] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
414] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
415] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
416] 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
417] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
418] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
419] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
420] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
421] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
422] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
423] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
424] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
425] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
426] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
427] 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
428] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
429] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
430] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
431] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
432] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
433] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
434] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
435] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
436] 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
437] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
438] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
439] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
440] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
441] 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.
442] 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.
443] 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
444] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
445] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
446] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
447] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
448] 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.
449] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
450] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
451] 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.
452] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
453] 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
454] 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.”
455] 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
456] 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.
457] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
458] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
459] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
460] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
461] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
462] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
463] 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.
464] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
465] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
466] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
467] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
468] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
469] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
470] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
471] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
472] 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.
473] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
474] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
475] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
476] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
477] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
478] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
479] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
480] 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.
481] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
482] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
483] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
484] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
485] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
486] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
487] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
488] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
489] 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).
490] 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)
491] 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
492] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
493] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
494] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
495] 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
496] 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
497] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
498] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
499] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
500] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
501] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
502] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
503] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
504] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
505] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
506] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
507] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
508] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
509] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
510] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
511] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
512] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
513] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
514] 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.
515] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
516] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
517] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
518] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
519] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
520] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
521] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
522] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
523] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
524] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
525] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
526] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
527] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
528] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
529] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
530] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
531] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
532] 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)
533] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
534] 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.
535] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
536] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
537] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
538] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
539] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
540] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
541] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
542] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
543] 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.
544] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
545] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
546] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
547] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
548] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
549] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
550] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
551] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
552] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
553] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
554] 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
555] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
556] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
557] 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
558] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
559] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
560] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
561] 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
562] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
563] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
564] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
565] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
566] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
567] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
568] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
569] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
570] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
571] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
572] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
573] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
574] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
575] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
576] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
577] 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)
578] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
579] 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.
580] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
581] 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.
582] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
583] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
584] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
585] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
586] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
587] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
588] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
589] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
590] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
591] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
592] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
593] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
594] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
595] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
596] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
597] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
598] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
599] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
600] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac