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1] 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
2] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
3] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
4] 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)
5] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
6] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
7] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
8] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
9] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
10] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
11] 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
12] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
13] 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.
14] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
15] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
16] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
17] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
18] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
19] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
20] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
21] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
22] 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.
23] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
24] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
25] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
26] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
27] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
28] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
29] 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)
30] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
31] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
32] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
33] 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.
34] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
35] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
36] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
37] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
38] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
40] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
41] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
42] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
43] 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.
44] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
45] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
46] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
47] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
48] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
49] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
50] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
51] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
52] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
53] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
54] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
55] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
56] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
57] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
58] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
59] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
60] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
61] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
62] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
63] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
64] 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)
65] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
66] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
67] 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
68] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
69] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
70] 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.
71] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
72] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
73] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
74] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
75] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
76] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
77] 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 .
78] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
79] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
80] 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.
81] 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
82] 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.
83] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
84] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
85] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
86] 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
87] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
88] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
89] 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
90] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
91] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
92] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
93] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
94] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
95] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
96] 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).
97] 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)
98] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
99] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
100] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
101] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
102] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
103] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
104] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
105] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
106] 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.
107] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
108] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
109] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
110] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
111] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
112] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
113] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
114] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
115] 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.”
116] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
117] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
118] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
119] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
120] 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)
121] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
122] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
123] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
124] 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.
125] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
126] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
127] 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.
128] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
129] 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.
130] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
131] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
132] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
133] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
134] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
135] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
136] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
137] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
138] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
139] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
140] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
141] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
142] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
143] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
145] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
146] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
147] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
148] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
149] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
150] 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
151] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
152] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
153] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
154] 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.
155] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
156] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
157] 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)
158] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
159] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
160] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
161] 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).
162] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
163] 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.
164] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
165] 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)
166] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
167] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
168] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
169] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
170] 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
171] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
172] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
173] 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
174] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
175] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
176] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
177] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
178] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
179] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
180] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
181] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
182] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
183] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
184] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
185] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
186] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
187] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
188] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
189] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
190] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
191] I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is Try to please every body.
Herbert Bayard Swope.
192] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
193] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
194] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
195] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
196] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
197] 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
198] 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.
199] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
200] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
201] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
202] I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any god thing I can do to any fellow being let me do it mow, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
203] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
204] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
205] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
206] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
207] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
208] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
209] 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.
210] 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]
211] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
212] 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
213] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
214] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
215] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
216] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
217] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
218] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
219] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
220] 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.
221] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
222] 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
223] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
224] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
225] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
226] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
227] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
228] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
229] 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.
230] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
231] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
232] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
233] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
234] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
235] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
236] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
237] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
238] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
239] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
240] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
241] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
242] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
243] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
244] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
245] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
246] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
247] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
248] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
249] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
250] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
251] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
252] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
253] 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
254] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
255] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
256] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
257] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
258] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
259] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
260] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
261] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
262] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
263] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
264] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
265] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
266] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
267] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
268] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
269] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
270] 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.
271] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
272] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
273] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
274] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
275] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
276] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
277] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
278] 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)
279] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
280] Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Willian Jennings Bryan.
281] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
282] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
283] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
284] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
285] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
286] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
287] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
288] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
289] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
290] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
291] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
292] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
293] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
294] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
295] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
296] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
297] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
298] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
299] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
300] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
301] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
302] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
303] 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.
304] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
305] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
306] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
307] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
308] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
309] 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
310] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
311] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
312] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
313] 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.
314] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
315] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
316] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
317] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
318] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
319] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
320] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
321] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
322] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
323] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
324] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
325] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
326] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
327] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
328] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
329] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
330] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
331] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
332] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
333] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
334] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
335] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
336] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
337] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
338] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
339] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
340] 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
341] 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.
342] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
343] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
344] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
345] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
346] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
347] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
348] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
349] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
350] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
351] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
352] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
353] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
354] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
355] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
356] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
357] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
358] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
359] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
360] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
361] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
362] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
363] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
364] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
365] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
366] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
367] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
368] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
369] 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)
370] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
371] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
372] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
373] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
374] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
375] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
376] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
377] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
378] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
379] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
380] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
381] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
382] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
383] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
384] 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
385] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
386] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
387] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
388] 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
389] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
390] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
391] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
392] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
393] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
394] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
395] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
396] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
397] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
398] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
399] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
400] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
401] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
402] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
403] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
404] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
405] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
406] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
407] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
408] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
409] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
410] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
411] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
412] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
413] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
414] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
415] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
416] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
417] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
418] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
419] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
420] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
421] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
422] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
423] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
424] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
425] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
426] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
427] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
428] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
429] 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)
430] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
431] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
432] 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
433] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
434] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
435] 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.
436] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
437] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
438] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
439] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
440] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
441] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
442] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
443] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
444] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
445] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
446] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
447] 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
448] 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
449] 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.
450] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
451] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
452] 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
453] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
454] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
455] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
456] 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.
457] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
458] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
459] 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)
460] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
461] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
462] 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
463] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
464] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
465] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
466] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
467] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
468] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
469] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
470] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
471] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
472] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
473] 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
474] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
475] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
476] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
477] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
478] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
479] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
480] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
481] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
482] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
483] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
484] 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).
485] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
486] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
487] 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.
488] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
489] 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.
490] 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.
491] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
492] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
493] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
494] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
495] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
496] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
497] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
498] 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.
499] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
500] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
501] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
502] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
503] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
504] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
505] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
506] 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.
507] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
508] 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
509] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
510] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
511] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
512] 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.
513] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
514] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
515] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
516] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
517] 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.
518] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
519] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
520] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
521] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
522] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
523] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
524] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
525] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
526] 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
527] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
528] 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.
529] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
530] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
531] 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
532] 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
533] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
534] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
535] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
536] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
537] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
538] 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
539] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
540] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
541] 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)
542] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
543] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
544] 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)
545] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
546] 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
547] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
548] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
549] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
550] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
551] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
552] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
553] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
554] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
555] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
556] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
557] 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
558] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
559] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
560] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
561] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
562] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
563] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
564] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
565] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
566] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
567] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
568] 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
569] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
570] 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
571] 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.
572] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
573] 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.
574] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
575] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
576] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
577] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
578] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
579] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
580] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
581] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
582] 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.
583] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
584] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
585] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
586] 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.
587] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
588] 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
589] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
590] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
591] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
592] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
593] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
594] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
595] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
596] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
597] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
598] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
599] 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)
600] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky