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1] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
2] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
3] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
4] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
5] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
6] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
7] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
8] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
9] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
10] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
11] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
12] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
13] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
14] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
15] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
16] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
17] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
18] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
19] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
20] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
21] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
22] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
23] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
24] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
25] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
26] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
27] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
28] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
29] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
30] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
31] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
32] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
33] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
34] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
35] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
36] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
37] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
38] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
39] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
40] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
41] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
42] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
43] 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
44] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
45] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
46] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
47] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
48] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
49] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
50] 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.”
51] 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.
52] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
53] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
54] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
55] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
56] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
57] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
58] 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
59] 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.
60] 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
61] 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
62] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
63] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
64] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
65] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
66] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
67] 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
68] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
69] 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)
70] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
71] 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
72] 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.
73] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
74] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
75] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
76] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
77] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
78] 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.
79] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
80] 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
81] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
82] 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.
83] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
84] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
85] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
86] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
87] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
88] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
89] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
90] 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.
91] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
92] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
93] 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.”
94] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
95] 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.
96] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
97] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
98] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
99] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
100] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
101] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
102] 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
103] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
104] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
105] 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.
106] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
107] 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
108] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
109] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
110] 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.
111] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
112] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
113] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
114] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
115] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
116] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
117] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
118] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
119] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
120] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
121] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
122] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
123] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
124] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
125] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
126] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
127] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
128] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
129] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
130] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
131] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
132] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
133] 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
134] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
135] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
136] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
137] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
138] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
139] 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
140] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
141] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
142] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
143] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
144] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
145] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
146] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
147] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
148] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
149] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
150] 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
151] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
152] 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)
153] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
154] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
155] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
156] 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
157] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
158] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
159] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
160] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
161] 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.
162] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
163] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
164] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
165] 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.
166] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
167] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
168] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
169] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
170] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
171] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
172] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
173] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
174] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
175] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
176] 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 .
177] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
178] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
179] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
180] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
181] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
182] 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.
183] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
184] 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
185] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
186] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
187] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
188] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
189] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
190] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
191] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
192] 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
193] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
194] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
195] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
196] 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)
197] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
198] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
199] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
200] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
201] 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
202] 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
203] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
204] 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)
205] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
206] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
207] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
208] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
209] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
210] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
211] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
212] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
213] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
214] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
215] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
216] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
217] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
218] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
219] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
220] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
221] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
222] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
223] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
224] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
225] 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.
226] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
227] 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
228] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
229] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
230] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
231] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
232] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
233] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
234] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
235] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
236] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
237] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
238] 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.
239] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
240] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
241] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
242] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
243] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
244] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
245] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
246] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
247] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
248] 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
249] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
250] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
251] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
252] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
253] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
254] 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.
255] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
256] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
257] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
258] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
259] 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.
260] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
261] 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
262] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
263] 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
264] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
265] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
266] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
267] 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.
268] 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.
269] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
270] 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
271] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
272] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
273] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
274] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
275] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
276] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
277] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
278] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
279] 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)
280] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
281] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
282] 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
283] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
284] 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
285] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
286] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
287] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
288] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
289] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
290] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
291] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
292] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
293] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
294] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
295] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
296] 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
297] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
298] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
299] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
300] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
301] 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
302] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
303] 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.
304] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
305] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
306] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
307] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
308] 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)
309] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
310] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
311] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
312] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
313] 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]
314] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
315] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
316] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
317] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
318] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
319] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
320] 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.
321] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
322] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
323] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
324] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
325] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
326] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
327] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
328] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
329] 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)
330] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
331] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
332] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
333] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
334] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
335] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
336] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
337] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
338] 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.
339] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
340] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
341] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
342] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
343] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
344] 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.
345] 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.
346] 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
347] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
348] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
349] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
350] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
351] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
352] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
353] Commonsense is not so common.
354] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
355] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
356] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
357] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
358] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
359] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
360] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
361] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
362] 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.
363] 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)
364] 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.
365] 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.
366] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
367] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
368] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
369] 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.
370] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
371] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
372] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
373] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
374] 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
375] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
376] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
377] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
378] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
379] 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.
380] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
381] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
382] 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).
383] 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
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] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
386] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
387] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
388] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
389] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
390] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
391] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
392] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
393] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
394] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
395] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
396] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
397] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
398] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
399] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
400] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
401] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
402] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
403] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
404] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
405] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
406] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
407] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
408] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
409] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
410] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
411] 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
412] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
413] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
414] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
415] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
416] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
417] Evidently God can cure cancer and tuberculosis, but cannot grow a new leg… This is blasphemy, but not mine – the priests and faith healers are guilty of limiting God’s powers.
Abraham Myerson
418] 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
419] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
420] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
421] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
422] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
423] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
424] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
425] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
426] Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He acts against God’s command. From the stand point of the church, which represents authority, this is essentially sin from the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of hum
Erich Fromm.
427] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
428] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
429] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
430] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
431] 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
432] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
433] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
434] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
435] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
436] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
437] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
438] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
439] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
440] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
441] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
442] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
443] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
444] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
445] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
446] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
447] 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).
448] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
449] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
450] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
451] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
452] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
453] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
454] 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.
455] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
456] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
457] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
458] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
459] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
460] 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.
461] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
462] 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
463] 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
464] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
465] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
466] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
467] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
468] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
469] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
470] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
471] 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)
472] 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.
473] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
474] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
475] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
476] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
477] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
478] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
479] 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.
480] 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.
481] 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)
482] 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.
483] 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.
484] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
485] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
486] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
487] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
488] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
489] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
490] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
491] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
492] 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
493] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
494] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
495] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
496] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
497] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
498] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
499] 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
500] 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.
501] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
502] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
503] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
504] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
505] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
506] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
507] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
508] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
509] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
510] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
511] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
512] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
513] 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
514] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
515] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
516] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
517] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
518] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
519] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
520] 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.
521] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
522] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
523] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
524] 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.
525] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
526] 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
527] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
528] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
529] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
530] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
531] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
532] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
533] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
534] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
535] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
536] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
537] 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.
538] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
539] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
540] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
541] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
542] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
543] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
544] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
545] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
546] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
547] 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.
548] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
549] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
550] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
551] 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
552] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
553] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
554] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
555] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
556] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
557] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
558] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
559] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
560] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
561] 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
562] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
563] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
564] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
565] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
566] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
567] 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
568] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
569] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
570] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
571] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
572] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
573] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
574] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
575] 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)
576] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
577] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
578] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
579] 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.
580] 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
581] 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)
582] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
583] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
584] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
585] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
586] 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)
587] 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.
588] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
589] 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.
590] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
591] 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)
592] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
593] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
594] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
595] 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
596] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
597] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
598] 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)
599] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
600] 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.