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1] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
2] 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)
3] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
4] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
5] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
6] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
7] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
8] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
9] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
10] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
11] 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.
12] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
13] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
14] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
15] 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.
16] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
17] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
18] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
19] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
20] 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.
21] 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
22] 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
23] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
24] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
25] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
26] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
27] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
28] 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
29] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
30] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
31] 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.
32] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
33] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
34] 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.
35] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
36] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
37] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
38] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
39] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
40] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
41] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
42] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
43] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
44] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
45] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
46] 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
47] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
48] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
49] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
50] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
51] 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.
52] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
53] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
54] 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.
55] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
56] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
57] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
58] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
59] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
60] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
61] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
62] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
63] 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
64] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
65] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
66] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
67] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
68] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
69] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
70] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
71] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
72] 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.
73] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
74] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
75] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
76] 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
77] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
78] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
79] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
80] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
81] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
82] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
83] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
84] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
85] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
86] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
87] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
88] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
89] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
90] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
91] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
92] 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
93] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
94] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
95] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
96] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
97] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
98] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
99] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
100] 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
101] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
102] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
103] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
104] 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.
105] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
106] Commonsense is not so common.
107] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
108] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
109] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
110] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
111] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
112] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
113] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
114] 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.
115] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
116] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
117] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
118] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
119] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
120] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
121] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
122] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
123] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
124] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
125] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
126] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
127] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
128] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
129] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
130] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
131] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
132] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
133] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
134] 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
135] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
136] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
137] 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
138] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
139] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
140] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
141] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
142] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
143] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
144] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
145] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
146] If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates ( 470 – 399 BC)
147] 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)
148] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
149] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
150] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
151] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
152] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
153] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
154] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
155] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
156] 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.
157] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
158] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
159] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
160] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
161] 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.
162] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
163] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
164] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
165] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
166] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
167] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
168] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
169] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
170] 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
171] 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.
172] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
173] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
174] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
175] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
176] 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]
177] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
178] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
179] 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.
180] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
181] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
182] 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
183] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
184] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
185] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
186] 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.
187] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
188] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
189] 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.
190] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
191] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
192] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
193] 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.
194] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
195] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
196] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
197] 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 .
198] 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)
199] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
200] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
201] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
202] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
203] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
204] 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.
205] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
206] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
207] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
208] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
209] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
210] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
211] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
212] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
213] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
214] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
215] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
216] 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
217] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
218] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
219] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
220] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
221] 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.
222] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
223] 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.
224] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
225] 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.
226] 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
227] 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.
228] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
229] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
230] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
231] 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.
232] 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.
233] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
234] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
235] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
236] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
237] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
238] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
239] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
240] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
241] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
242] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
243] 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.
244] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
245] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
246] 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
247] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
248] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
249] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
250] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
251] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
252] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
253] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
254] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
255] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
256] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
257] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
258] 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 .
259] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
260] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
261] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
262] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
263] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
264] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
265] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
266] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
267] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
268] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
269] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
270] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
271] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
272] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
273] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
274] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
275] 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.
276] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
277] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
278] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
279] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
280] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
281] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
282] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
283] 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.
284] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
285] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
286] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
287] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
288] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
289] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
290] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
291] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
292] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
293] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
294] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
295] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
296] 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)
297] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
298] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
299] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
300] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
301] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
302] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
303] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
304] 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.
305] 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.
306] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
307] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
308] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
309] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
310] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
311] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
312] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
313] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
314] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
315] 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
316] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
317] 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.
318] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
319] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
320] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
321] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
322] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
323] 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.”
324] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
325] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
326] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
327] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
328] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
329] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
330] 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
331] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
332] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
333] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
334] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
335] 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.
336] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
337] 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)
338] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
339] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
340] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
341] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
342] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
343] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
344] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
345] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
346] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
347] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
348] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
349] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
350] The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
351] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
352] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
353] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
354] 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
355] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
356] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
357] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
358] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
359] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
360] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
361] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
362] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
363] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
364] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
365] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
366] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
367] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
368] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
369] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
370] 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.
371] The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that the human beings, by changing inner attitudes of their minds can change aspects of their lives.
William James.
372] 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)
373] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
374] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
375] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
376] 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.
377] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
378] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
379] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
380] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
381] 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
382] 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.
383] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
384] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
385] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
386] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
387] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
388] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
389] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
390] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
391] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
392] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
393] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
394] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
395] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
396] 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)
397] 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
398] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
399] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
400] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
401] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
402] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
403] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
404] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
405] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
406] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
407] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
408] 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
409] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
410] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
411] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
412] 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)
413] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
414] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
415] 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
416] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
417] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
418] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
419] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
420] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
421] 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
422] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
423] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
424] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
425] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
426] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
427] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
428] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
429] 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.
430] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
431] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
432] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
433] 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
434] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
435] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
436] 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
437] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
438] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
439] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
440] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
441] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
442] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
443] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
444] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
445] 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
446] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
447] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
448] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
449] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
450] 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.
451] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
452] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
453] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
454] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
455] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
456] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
457] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
458] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
459] 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
460] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
461] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
462] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
463] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
464] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
465] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
466] 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)
467] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
469] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
470] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
471] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
472] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
473] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
474] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
475] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
476] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
477] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
478] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
479] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
480] 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)
481] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
482] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
483] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
484] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
485] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
486] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
487] 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
488] 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.
489] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
490] 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.
491] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
492] 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
493] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
494] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
495] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
496] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
497] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
498] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
499] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
500] 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)
501] 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.
502] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
503] 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
504] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
505] 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.
506] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
507] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
508] 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)
509] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
510] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
511] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
512] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
513] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
514] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
515] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
516] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
517] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
518] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
519] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
520] 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
521] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
522] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
523] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
524] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
525] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
526] 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
527] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
528] 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
529] 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
530] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
531] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
532] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
533] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
534] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
535] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
536] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
537] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
538] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
539] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
540] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
541] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
542] 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
543] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
544] 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.
545] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
546] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
547] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
548] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
549] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
550] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
551] 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
552] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
553] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
554] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
555] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
556] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
557] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
558] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
559] 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
560] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
561] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
562] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
563] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
564] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
565] 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.”
566] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
567] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
568] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
569] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
570] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
571] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
572] 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]
573] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
574] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
575] 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.
576] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
577] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
578] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
579] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
580] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
581] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
582] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
583] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
584] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
585] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
586] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
587] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
588] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
589] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
590] 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.
591] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
592] 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
593] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
594] 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.
595] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
596] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
597] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
598] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
599] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
600] 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)