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1] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
2] 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
3] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
4] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
5] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
6] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
7] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
8] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
9] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
10] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
11] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
12] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
13] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
14] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
15] 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
16] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
17] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
18] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
19] 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.
20] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
21] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
22] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
23] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
24] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
25] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
26] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
27] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
28] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
29] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
30] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
31] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
32] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
33] 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]
34] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
35] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
36] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
37] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
38] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
39] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
40] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
41] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
42] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
43] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
44] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
45] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
46] 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.
47] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
49] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
50] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
51] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
52] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
53] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
54] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
55] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
56] 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.
57] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
58] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
59] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
60] 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)
61] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
62] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
63] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
64] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
65] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
66] 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.
67] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
68] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
69] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
70] 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.
71] 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.”
72] 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.
73] If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don’t have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don’t have a head.
Randolph Bourne.
74] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
75] 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.
76] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
77] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
78] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
79] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
80] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
81] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
82] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
83] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
84] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
85] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
86] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
87] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
88] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
89] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
90] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
91] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
92] 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
93] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
94] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
95] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
96] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
97] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
98] 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.
99] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
100] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
101] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
102] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
103] 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.
104] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
105] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
106] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
107] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
108] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
109] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
110] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
111] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
112] 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
113] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
114] 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.
115] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
116] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
117] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
118] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
119] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
120] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
121] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
122] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
123] 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)
124] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
125] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
126] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
127] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
128] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
129] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
130] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
131] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
132] 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
133] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
134] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
135] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
136] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
137] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
138] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
139] 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 .
140] 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.
141] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
142] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
143] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
144] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
145] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
146] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
147] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
148] 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)
149] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
150] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
151] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
152] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
153] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
154] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
155] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
156] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
157] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
158] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
159] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
160] Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthrone (1804 – 1864)
161] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
162] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
163] 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.
164] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
165] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
166] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
167] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
168] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
169] 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
170] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
171] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
172] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
173] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
174] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
175] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
176] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
177] 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.
178] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
179] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
180] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
181] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
182] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
183] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
184] 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
185] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
186] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
187] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
188] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
189] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
190] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
191] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
192] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
193] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
194] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
195] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
196] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
197] 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)
198] 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)
199] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
200] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
201] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
202] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
203] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
204] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
205] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
206] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
207] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
208] 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.
209] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
210] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
211] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
212] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
213] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
214] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
215] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
216] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
217] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
218] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
219] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
220] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
221] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
222] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
223] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
224] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
225] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
226] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
227] 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)
228] 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
229] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
230] 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.
231] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
232] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
233] 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
234] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
235] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
236] 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.
237] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
238] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
239] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
240] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
241] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
242] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
243] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
244] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
245] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
246] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
247] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
248] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
249] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
250] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
251] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
252] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
253] 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.
254] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
255] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
256] 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
257] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
258] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
259] 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
260] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
261] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
262] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
263] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
264] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
265] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
266] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
267] 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)
268] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
269] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
270] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
271] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
272] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
273] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
274] 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.
275] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
276] 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
277] 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.
278] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
279] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
280] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
281] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
282] 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.
283] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
284] 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).
285] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
286] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
287] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
288] 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
289] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
290] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
291] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
292] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
293] 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)
294] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
295] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
296] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
297] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
298] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
299] 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.
300] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
301] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
302] 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
303] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
304] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
305] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
306] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
307] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
308] 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.
309] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
310] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
311] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
312] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
313] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
314] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
315] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
316] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
317] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
318] 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
319] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
320] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
321] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
322] 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.
323] 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
324] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
325] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
326] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
327] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
328] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
329] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
330] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
331] 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 .
332] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
333] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
334] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
335] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
336] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
337] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
338] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
339] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
340] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
341] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
342] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
343] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
344] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
345] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
346] 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.
347] The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swipped them from them from chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegic.
348] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
349] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
350] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
351] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
352] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
353] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
354] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
355] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
356] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
357] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
358] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
359] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
360] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
361] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
362] 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.
363] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
364] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
365] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
366] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
367] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
368] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
369] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
370] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
371] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
372] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
373] 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
374] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
375] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
376] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
377] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
378] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
379] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
380] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
381] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
382] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
383] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
384] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
385] 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
386] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
387] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
388] 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).
389] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
390] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
391] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
392] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
393] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
394] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
395] 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)
396] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
397] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
398] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
399] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
400] 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.
401] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
402] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
403] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
404] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
405] 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.
406] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
407] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
408] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
409] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
410] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
411] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
412] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
413] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
414] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
415] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
416] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
417] 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
418] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
419] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
420] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
421] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
422] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
423] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
424] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
425] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
426] 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.
427] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
428] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
429] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
430] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
431] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
432] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
433] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
434] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
435] 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.
436] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
437] 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
438] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
439] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
440] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
441] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
442] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
443] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
444] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
445] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
446] 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
447] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
448] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
449] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
450] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
451] 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).
452] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
453] 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
454] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
455] 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
456] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
457] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
458] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
459] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
460] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
461] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
462] 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
463] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
464] 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.
465] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
466] 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
467] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
468] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
469] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
470] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
471] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
472] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
473] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
474] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
475] 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.
476] 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.
477] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
478] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
479] 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
480] 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.
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] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
483] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
484] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
485] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
486] 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.
487] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
488] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
489] 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
490] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
491] 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.
492] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
493] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
494] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
495] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
496] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
497] 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.
498] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
499] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
500] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
501] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
502] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
503] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
504] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
505] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
506] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
507] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
508] 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
509] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
510] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
511] 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
512] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
513] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
514] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
515] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
516] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
517] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
518] 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)
519] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
520] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
521] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
522] 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)
523] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
524] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
525] 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
526] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
527] 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.
528] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
529] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
530] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
531] 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)
532] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
533] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
534] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
535] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
536] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
537] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
538] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
539] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
540] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
541] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
542] 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.
543] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
544] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
545] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
546] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
547] 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.
548] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
549] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
550] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
551] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
552] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
553] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
554] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
555] 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
556] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
557] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
558] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
559] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
560] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
561] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
562] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
563] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
564] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
565] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
566] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
567] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
568] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
569] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
570] 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
571] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
572] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
573] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
574] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
575] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
576] 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)
577] 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)
578] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
579] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
580] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
581] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
582] 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
583] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
584] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
585] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
586] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
587] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
588] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
589] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
590] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
591] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
592] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
593] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
594] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
595] 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
596] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
597] 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
598] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
599] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
600] 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.