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1] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
2] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
3] 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.
4] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
5] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
6] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
7] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
8] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
9] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
10] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
11] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
12] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
13] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
14] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
15] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
16] 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
17] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
18] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
19] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
20] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
21] 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.
22] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
23] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
24] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
25] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
26] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
27] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
28] 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.
29] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
30] 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.
31] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
32] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
33] 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.
34] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
35] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
36] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
37] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
38] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
39] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
40] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
41] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
42] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
43] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
44] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
45] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
46] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
47] 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.”
48] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
49] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
50] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
51] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
52] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
53] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
54] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
55] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
56] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
57] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
58] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
59] 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.
60] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
61] 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
62] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
63] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
64] 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
65] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
66] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
67] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
68] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
69] 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
70] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
71] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
72] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
73] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
74] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
75] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
76] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
77] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
78] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
79] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
80] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
81] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
82] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
83] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
84] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
85] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
86] 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
87] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
88] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
89] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
90] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
91] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
92] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
93] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
94] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
95] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
96] 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
97] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
98] 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.
99] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
100] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
101] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
102] 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.
103] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
104] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
105] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
106] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
107] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
108] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
109] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
110] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
111] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
112] 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)
113] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
114] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
115] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
117] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
118] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
119] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
120] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
121] 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
122] 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
123] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
124] 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.
125] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
126] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
127] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
128] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
129] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
130] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
131] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
132] 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).
133] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
134] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
135] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
136] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
137] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
138] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
139] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
140] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
141] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
142] 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
143] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
144] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
145] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
146] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
147] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
148] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
149] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
150] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
151] 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)
152] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
153] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
154] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
155] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
156] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
157] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
158] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
159] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
160] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
161] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
162] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
163] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
164] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
165] 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
166] 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.
167] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
168] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
169] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
170] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
171] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
172] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
173] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
174] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
175] 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.
176] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
177] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
178] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
179] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
180] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
181] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
182] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
183] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
184] 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.
185] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
186] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
187] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
188] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
189] 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)
190] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
191] 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.
192] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
193] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
194] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
195] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
196] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
197] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
198] 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).
199] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
200] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
201] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
202] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
203] 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
204] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
205] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
206] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
207] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
208] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
209] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
210] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
212] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
213] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
214] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
215] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
216] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
217] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
218] 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)
219] 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
220] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
221] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
222] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
223] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
224] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
225] 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.
226] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
227] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
228] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
229] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
230] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
231] 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
232] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
233] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
234] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
235] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
236] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
237] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
238] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
239] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
240] 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.
241] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
242] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
243] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
244] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
245] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
246] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
247] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
248] 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
249] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
250] 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
251] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
252] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
253] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
254] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
255] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
256] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
257] 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.
258] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
259] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
260] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
261] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
262] 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.
263] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
264] 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.
265] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
266] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
267] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
268] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
269] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
270] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
271] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
272] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
273] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
274] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
275] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
276] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
277] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
278] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
279] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
280] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
281] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
282] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
283] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
284] 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.
285] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
286] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
287] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
288] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
289] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
290] 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
291] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
292] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
293] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
294] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
295] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
296] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
297] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
298] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
299] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
300] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
301] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
302] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
303] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
304] 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
305] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
306] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
307] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
308] 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
309] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
310] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
311] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
312] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
313] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
314] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
315] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
316] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
317] 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.
318] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
319] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
320] 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.
321] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
322] 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.
323] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
324] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
325] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
326] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
327] 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)
328] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
329] 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
330] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
331] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
332] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
333] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
334] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
335] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
336] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
337] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
338] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
339] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
340] 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)
341] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
342] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
343] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
344] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
345] 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
346] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
347] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
348] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
349] 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
350] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
351] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
352] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
353] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
354] Commonsense is not so common.
355] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
356] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
357] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
358] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
359] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
360] 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
361] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
362] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
363] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
364] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
365] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
366] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
367] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
368] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
369] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
370] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
371] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
372] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
373] 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.
374] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
375] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
376] 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
377] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
378] 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.
379] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
380] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
381] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
382] 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.
383] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
384] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
385] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
386] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
387] 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
388] 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.
389] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
390] 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
391] 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
392] 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.
393] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
394] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
395] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
396] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
397] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
398] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
399] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
400] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
401] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
402] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
403] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
404] 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.
405] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
406] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
407] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
408] 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.
409] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
410] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
411] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
412] 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.
413] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
414] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
415] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
416] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
417] 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 .
418] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
419] 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.
420] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
421] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
422] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
423] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
424] 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.
425] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
426] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
427] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
428] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
429] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
430] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
431] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
432] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
433] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
434] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
435] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
436] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
437] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
438] 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
439] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
440] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
441] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
442] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
443] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
444] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
445] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
446] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
447] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
448] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
449] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
450] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
451] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
452] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
453] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
454] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
455] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
456] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
457] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
458] 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)
459] 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.
460] 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.
461] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
462] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
463] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
464] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
465] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
466] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
467] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
468] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
469] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
470] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
471] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
472] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
473] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
474] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
475] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
476] 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)
477] 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.
478] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
479] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
480] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
481] 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)
482] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
483] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
484] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
485] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
486] 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
487] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
488] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
489] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
490] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
491] Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy…. Contempt for happiness is usually happiness,
Bertrand Russell.
492] 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.
493] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
494] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
495] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
496] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
497] 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.
498] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
499] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
500] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
501] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
502] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
503] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
504] 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.
505] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
506] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
507] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
508] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
509] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
510] 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.
511] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
512] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
513] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
514] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
515] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
516] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
517] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
518] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
519] 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
520] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
521] 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.
522] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
523] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
524] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
525] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
526] 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]
527] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
528] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
529] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
530] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
531] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
532] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
533] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
534] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
535] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
536] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
537] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
538] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
539] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
540] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
541] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
542] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
543] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
544] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
545] 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.
546] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
547] The Quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper or his keeper’s brother.
Evan Esar
548] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
549] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
550] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
551] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
552] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
553] 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
554] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
555] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
556] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
557] 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.
558] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
559] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
560] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
561] 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.
562] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
563] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
564] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
565] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
566] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
567] 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)
568] 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
569] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
570] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
571] 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
572] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
573] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
574] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
575] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
576] 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.
577] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
578] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
579] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
580] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
581] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
582] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
583] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
584] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
585] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
586] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
587] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
588] 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
589] 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.
590] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
591] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
592] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
593] 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).
594] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
595] 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.
596] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
597] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
598] 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.
599] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
600] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.