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1] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
2] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
3] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
4] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
5] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
6] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
7] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
8] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
9] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
10] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
11] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
12] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
13] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
14] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
15] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
16] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
17] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
18] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
19] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
20] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
21] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
22] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
23] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
24] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
25] 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.
26] 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.
27] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
28] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
29] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
30] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
31] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
32] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
33] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
34] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
35] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
36] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
37] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
38] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
39] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
40] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
41] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
42] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
43] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
44] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
45] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
46] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
47] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
48] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
49] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
50] 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
51] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
52] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
53] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
54] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
55] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
56] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
57] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
58] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
59] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
60] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
61] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
62] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
63] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
64] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
65] 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.
66] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
67] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
68] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
69] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
70] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
71] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
72] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
73] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
74] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
75] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
76] 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
77] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
78] 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
79] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
80] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
81] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
82] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
83] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
84] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
85] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
86] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
87] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
88] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
89] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
90] 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)
91] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
92] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
93] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
94] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
95] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
96] 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 .
97] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
98] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
99] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
100] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
101] 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.
102] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
103] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
104] 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
105] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
106] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
107] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
108] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
109] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
110] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
111] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
112] 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)
113] 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.
114] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
115] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
116] 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.
117] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
118] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
119] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
120] 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
121] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
122] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
123] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
124] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
125] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
126] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
127] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
128] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
129] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
130] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
131] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
132] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
133] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
134] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
135] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
136] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
137] 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
138] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
139] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
140] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
141] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
142] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
143] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
144] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
145] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
146] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
147] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
148] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
149] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
150] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
151] 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.
152] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
153] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
154] 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.
155] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
156] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
157] 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.
158] 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.
159] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
160] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
161] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
162] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
163] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
164] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
165] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
166] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
167] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
168] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
169] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
170] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
171] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
172] 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.
173] 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
174] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
175] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
176] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
177] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
178] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
179] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
180] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
181] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
182] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
183] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
184] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
185] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
186] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
187] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
188] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
189] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
190] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
191] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
192] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
193] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
194] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
195] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
196] 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).
197] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
198] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
199] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
200] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
201] We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
202] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
203] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
204] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
205] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
206] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
207] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
208] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
209] 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.
210] 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.
211] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
212] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
213] 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.
214] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
215] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
216] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
217] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
218] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
219] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
220] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
221] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
222] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
223] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
224] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
225] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
226] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
227] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
228] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
229] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
230] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
231] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
232] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
233] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
234] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
235] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
236] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
237] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
238] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
239] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
240] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
241] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
242] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
243] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
244] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
245] Mothers and Dads that take their children to church never get into trouble. [But going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.]
J. Edgar Hoover
246] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
247] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
248] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
249] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
250] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
251] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
252] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
253] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
254] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
255] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
256] 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
257] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
258] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
259] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
260] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
261] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
262] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
263] 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
264] If happiness truly consisted in physical case and freedom from care then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, and American cow.
William Lyon Phelps.
265] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
266] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
267] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
268] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
269] 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.
270] 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
271] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
272] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
273] Commonsense is not so common.
274] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
275] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
276] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
277] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
278] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
279] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
280] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
281] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
282] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
283] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
284] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
285] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
286] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
287] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
288] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
289] 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
290] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
291] 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.
292] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
293] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
294] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
295] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
296] 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
297] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
298] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
299] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
300] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
301] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
302] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
303] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
304] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
305] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
306] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
307] 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.
308] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
309] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
310] 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.
311] 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
312] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
313] 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
314] 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.
315] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
316] 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
317] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
318] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
319] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
320] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
321] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
322] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
323] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
324] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
325] 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.
326] 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.
327] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
328] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
329] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
330] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
331] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
332] 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.
333] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
334] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
335] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
336] 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.
337] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
338] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
339] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
340] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
341] 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.
342] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
343] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
344] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
345] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
346] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
347] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
348] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
349] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
350] 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.
351] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
352] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
353] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
354] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
355] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
356] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
357] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
358] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
359] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
360] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
361] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
362] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
363] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
364] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
365] 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.
366] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
367] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
368] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
369] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
370] 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
371] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
372] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
373] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
374] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
375] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
376] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
377] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
378] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
379] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
380] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
381] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
382] 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.
383] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
384] 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
385] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
386] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
387] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
388] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
389] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
390] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
391] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
392] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
393] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
394] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
395] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
396] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
397] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
398] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
399] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
400] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
401] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
402] 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
403] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
404] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
405] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
406] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
407] 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
408] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
409] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
410] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
411] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
412] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
413] 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.
414] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
415] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
416] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
417] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
418] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
419] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
420] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
421] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
422] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
423] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
424] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
425] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
426] 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.
427] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
428] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
429] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
430] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
431] 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.
432] 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
433] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
434] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
435] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
436] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
437] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
438] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
439] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
440] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
441] 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
442] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
443] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
444] 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
445] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
446] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
447] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
448] 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
449] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
450] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
451] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
452] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
453] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
454] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
455] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
456] 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.
457] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
458] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
459] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
460] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
461] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
462] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
463] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
464] 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.
465] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
466] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
467] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
468] 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
469] 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.
470] 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.
471] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
472] 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
473] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
474] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
475] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
476] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
477] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
478] 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
479] 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).
480] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
481] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
482] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
483] 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
484] 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.
485] 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.
486] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
487] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
488] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
489] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
490] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
491] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
492] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
493] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
494] 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)
495] 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.
496] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
497] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
498] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
499] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
500] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
501] 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
502] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
503] 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.
504] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
505] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
506] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
507] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
508] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
509] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
510] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
511] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
512] 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
513] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
514] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
515] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
516] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
517] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
518] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
519] 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.
520] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
521] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
522] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
523] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
524] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
525] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
526] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
527] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
528] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
529] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
530] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
531] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
532] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
533] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
534] 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)
535] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
536] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
537] 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
538] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
539] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
540] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
541] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
542] 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
543] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
544] 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.
545] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
546] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
547] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
548] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
549] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
550] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
551] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
552] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
553] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
554] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
555] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
556] 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)
557] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
558] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
559] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
560] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
561] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
562] 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)
563] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
564] Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave
Pope Pius – X1
565] 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
566] 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)
567] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
568] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
569] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
570] 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.
571] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
572] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
573] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
574] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
575] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
576] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
577] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
578] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
579] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
580] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
581] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
582] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
583] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
584] 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.
585] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
586] 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
587] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
588] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
589] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
590] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
591] 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)
592] 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
593] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
594] 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
595] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
596] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
597] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
598] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
599] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
600] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.