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1] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
2] 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
3] 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
4] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
5] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
6] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
7] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
8] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
9] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
10] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
11] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
12] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
13] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
14] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
15] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
16] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
17] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
18] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
19] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
20] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
21] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
22] 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
23] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
24] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
25] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
26] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
27] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
28] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
29] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
30] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
31] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
32] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
33] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
34] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
35] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
36] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
37] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
38] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
39] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
40] 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
41] 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
42] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
43] 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
44] 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
45] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
46] 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)
47] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
48] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
49] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
50] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
51] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
52] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
53] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
54] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
55] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
56] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
57] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
58] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
59] 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.
60] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
61] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
62] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
63] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
64] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
65] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
66] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
67] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
68] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
69] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
70] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
71] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
72] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
73] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
74] 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.
75] 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.
76] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
77] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
78] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
79] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
80] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
81] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
82] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
83] 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.
84] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
85] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
86] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
87] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
88] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
89] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
90] 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
91] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
92] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
93] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
94] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
95] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
96] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
97] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
98] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
99] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
100] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
101] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
102] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
103] 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.
104] 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
105] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
106] 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
107] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
108] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
109] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
110] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
111] 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.
112] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
113] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
114] 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
115] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
116] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
117] 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.
118] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
119] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
120] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
121] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
122] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
123] 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
124] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
125] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
126] 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.
127] 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
128] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
129] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
130] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
131] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
132] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
133] 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.
134] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
135] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
136] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
137] 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.
138] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
139] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
140] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
141] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
142] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
143] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
144] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
145] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
146] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
147] 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.
148] 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.
149] 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
150] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
151] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
152] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
153] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
154] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
155] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
156] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
157] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
158] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
159] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
160] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
161] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
162] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
163] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
164] Commonsense is not so common.
165] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
166] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
167] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
168] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
169] 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
170] 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.
171] 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.
172] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
173] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
174] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
175] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
176] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
177] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
178] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
179] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
180] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
181] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
182] 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.
183] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
184] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
185] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
186] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
187] 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)
188] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
189] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
190] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
191] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
192] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
193] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
194] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
195] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
196] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
197] 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
198] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
199] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
200] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
201] 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.
202] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
203] 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.
204] 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
205] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
206] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
207] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
208] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
209] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
210] 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.
211] 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.
212] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
213] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
214] 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.
215] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
216] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
217] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
218] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
219] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
220] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
221] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
222] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
223] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
224] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
225] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
226] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
227] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
228] 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
229] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
230] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
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] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
233] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
234] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
235] 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.
236] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
237] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
238] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
239] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
240] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
241] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
242] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
243] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
244] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
245] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
246] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
247] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
248] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
249] 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)
250] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
251] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
252] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
253] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
254] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
255] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
256] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
257] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
258] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
259] 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)
260] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
261] 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.
262] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
263] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
264] 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.
265] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
266] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
267] 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
268] 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.
269] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
270] 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.”
271] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
272] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
273] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
274] 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)
275] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
276] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
277] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
278] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
279] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
280] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
281] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
282] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
283] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
284] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
285] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
286] 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
287] 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
288] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
289] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
290] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
291] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
292] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
293] 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.
294] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
295] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
296] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
297] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
298] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
299] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
300] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
301] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
302] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
303] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
304] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
305] 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
306] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
307] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
308] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
309] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
310] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
311] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
312] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
313] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
314] 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.
315] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
316] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
317] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
318] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
319] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
320] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
321] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
322] 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.
323] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
324] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
325] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
326] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
327] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
328] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
329] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
330] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
331] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
332] 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
333] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
334] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
335] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
336] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
337] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
338] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
339] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
340] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
341] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
343] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
344] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
345] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
346] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
347] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
348] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
349] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
350] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
351] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
352] 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
353] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
354] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
355] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
356] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
357] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
358] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
359] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
360] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
361] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
362] 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.
363] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
364] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
365] 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
366] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
367] 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
368] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
369] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
370] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
371] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
372] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
373] 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
374] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
375] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
376] 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
377] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
378] 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.
379] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
380] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
381] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
382] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
383] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
384] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
385] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
386] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
387] 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.”
388] 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
389] 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)
390] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
391] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
392] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
393] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
394] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
395] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
396] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
397] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
398] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
399] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
400] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
401] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
402] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
403] 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.
404] 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.
405] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
406] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
407] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
408] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
409] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
410] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
411] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
412] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
413] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
414] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
415] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
416] 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)
417] 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.
418] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
419] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
420] 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
421] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
422] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
423] 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.
424] 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.
425] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
426] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
427] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
428] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
429] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
430] 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
431] 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)
432] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
433] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
434] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
435] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
436] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
437] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
438] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
439] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
440] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
441] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
442] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
443] 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.
444] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
445] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
446] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
447] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
448] 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.
449] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
450] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
451] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
452] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
453] 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
454] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
455] 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.
456] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
457] 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
458] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
459] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
460] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
461] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
462] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
463] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
464] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
465] 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.
466] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
467] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
468] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
469] 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
470] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
471] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
472] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
473] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
474] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
475] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
476] 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
477] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
478] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
479] 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
480] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
481] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
482] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
483] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
484] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
485] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
486] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
487] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
488] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
489] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
490] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
491] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
492] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
493] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
494] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
495] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
496] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
497] 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
498] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
499] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
500] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
501] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
502] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
503] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
504] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
505] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
506] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
507] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
508] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
509] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
510] 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
511] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
512] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
513] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
514] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
515] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
516] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
517] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
518] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
519] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
520] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
521] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
522] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
523] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
524] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
525] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
526] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
527] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
528] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
529] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
530] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
531] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
532] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
533] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
534] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
535] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
536] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
537] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
538] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
539] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
540] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
541] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
542] 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.
543] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
544] 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.
545] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
546] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
547] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
548] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
549] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
550] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
551] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
552] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
553] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
554] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
555] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
556] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
557] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
558] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
559] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
560] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
561] 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
562] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
563] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
564] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
565] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
566] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
567] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
568] 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.
569] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
570] 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.
571] 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
572] 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
573] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
574] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
575] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
576] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
577] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
578] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
579] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
580] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
581] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
582] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
583] 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.
584] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
585] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
586] 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
587] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
588] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
589] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
590] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
591] 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
592] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
593] 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.
594] 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.
595] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
596] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
597] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
598] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
599] 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)
600] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy