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1] 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
2] 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
3] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
4] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
5] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
6] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
7] 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.
8] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
9] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
10] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
11] 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.
12] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
13] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
14] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
15] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
16] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
17] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
18] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
19] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
20] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
21] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
22] 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
23] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
24] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
25] 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.
26] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
27] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
28] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
29] 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.
30] 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.
31] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
32] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
33] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
34] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
35] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
36] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
37] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
38] 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.
39] 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.
40] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
41] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
42] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
43] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
44] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
45] 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.
46] 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)
47] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
48] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
49] 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
50] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
51] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
52] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
53] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
54] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
55] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
56] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
57] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
58] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
59] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
60] 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
61] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
62] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
63] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
64] 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.
65] 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
66] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
67] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
68] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
69] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
70] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
71] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
72] 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.
73] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
74] 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.
75] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
76] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
77] 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.
78] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
79] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
80] 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)
81] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
82] 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)
83] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
84] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
85] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
86] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
87] 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.
88] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
89] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
90] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
91] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
92] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
93] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
94] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
95] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
96] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
97] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
98] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
99] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
100] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
101] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
102] 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
103] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
104] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
105] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
106] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
107] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
108] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
109] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
110] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
111] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
112] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
113] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
114] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
115] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
116] 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)
117] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
118] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
119] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
120] 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
121] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
122] 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
123] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
124] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
125] 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)
126] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
127] 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.
128] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
129] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
130] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
131] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
132] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
133] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
134] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
135] 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
136] 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
137] 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.
138] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
139] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
140] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
141] 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.
142] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
143] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
144] 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.
145] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
146] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
147] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
148] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
149] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
150] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
151] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
152] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
153] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
154] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
155] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
156] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
157] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
158] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
159] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
160] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
161] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
162] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
163] 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.
164] 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 .
165] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
166] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
167] 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)
168] Since 1968 we have spent 364 billion dollars on war; 27 billion dollars on space; and less than 2 billion dollars on community development and housing
169] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
170] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
171] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
172] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
173] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
174] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
175] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
176] 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
177] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
178] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
179] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
180] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
181] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
182] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
183] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
184] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
185] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
186] 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)
187] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
188] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
189] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
190] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
191] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
192] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
193] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
194] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
195] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
196] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
197] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
198] 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.
199] 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
200] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
201] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
202] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
203] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
204] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
205] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
206] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
207] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
208] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
209] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
210] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
211] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
212] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
213] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
214] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
215] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
216] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
217] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
218] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
219] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
220] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
221] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
222] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
223] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
224] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
225] 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.”
226] 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
227] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
228] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
229] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
230] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
231] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
232] 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.
233] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
234] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
235] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
236] 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
237] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
238] 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
239] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
240] 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
241] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
242] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
243] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
244] 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
245] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
246] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
247] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
248] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
249] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
250] 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.
251] 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
252] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
253] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
254] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
255] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
256] 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.
257] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
258] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
259] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
260] The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton.
261] 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.
262] 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
263] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
264] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
265] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
266] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
267] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
268] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
269] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
270] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
271] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
272] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
273] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
274] 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.
275] 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
276] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
277] 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
278] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
279] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
280] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
281] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
282] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
283] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
284] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
285] 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.
286] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
287] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
288] 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
289] 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)
290] 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)
291] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
292] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
293] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
294] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
295] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
296] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
297] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
298] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
299] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
300] 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.
301] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
302] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
303] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
304] 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.
305] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
306] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
307] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
308] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
309] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
310] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
311] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
312] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
313] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
314] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
315] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
316] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
317] 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.
318] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
319] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
320] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
321] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
322] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
323] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
324] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
325] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
326] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
327] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
328] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
329] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
330] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
331] 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
332] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
333] 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.
334] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
335] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
336] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
337] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
338] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
339] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
340] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
341] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
342] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
343] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
344] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
345] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
346] 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.
347] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
348] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
349] 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.
350] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
351] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
352] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
353] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
354] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
355] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
356] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
357] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
358] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
359] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
360] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
361] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
362] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
363] 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
364] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
365] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
366] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
367] 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).
368] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
369] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
370] 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.
371] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
372] 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.
373] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
374] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
375] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
376] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
377] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
378] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
379] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
380] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
381] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
382] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
383] 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
384] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
385] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
386] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
387] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
388] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
389] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
390] 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.
391] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
392] 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
393] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
394] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
395] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
396] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
397] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
398] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
399] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
400] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
401] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
402] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
403] 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)
404] 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
405] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
406] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
407] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
408] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
409] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
410] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
411] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
412] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
413] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
414] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
415] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
416] 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
417] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
418] 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
419] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
420] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
421] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
422] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
423] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
424] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
425] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
426] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
427] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
428] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
429] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
430] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
431] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
432] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
433] 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.
434] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
435] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
436] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
437] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
438] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
439] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
440] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
441] 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.
442] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
443] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
444] 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.
445] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
446] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
447] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
448] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
449] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
450] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
451] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
452] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
453] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
454] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
455] 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)
456] 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
457] 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.
458] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
459] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
460] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
461] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
462] 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.
463] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
464] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
465] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
466] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
467] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
468] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
469] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
470] 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.
471] 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.
472] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
473] 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.
474] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
475] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
476] A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
477] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
478] 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)
479] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
480] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
481] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
482] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
483] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
484] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
485] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
486] 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.
487] 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 .
488] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
489] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
490] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
491] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
492] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
493] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
494] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
495] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
496] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
497] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
498] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
499] 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.
500] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
501] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
502] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
503] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
504] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
505] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
506] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
507] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
508] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
509] 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
510] 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
511] 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
512] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
513] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
514] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
515] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
516] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
517] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
518] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
519] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
520] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
521] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
522] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
523] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
524] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
525] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
526] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
527] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
528] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
529] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
530] 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)
531] 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)
532] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
533] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
534] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
535] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
536] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
537] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
538] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
539] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
540] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
541] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
542] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
543] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
544] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
545] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
546] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
547] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
548] 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
549] 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
550] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
551] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
552] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
553] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
554] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
555] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
556] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
557] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
558] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
559] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
560] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
561] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
562] 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.
563] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
564] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
565] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
566] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
567] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
568] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
569] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
570] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
571] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
572] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
573] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
574] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
575] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
576] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
577] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
578] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
579] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
580] 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.
581] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
582] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
583] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
584] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
585] 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)
586] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
587] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
588] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
589] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
590] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
591] 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
592] 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
593] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
594] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
595] 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.
596] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
597] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
598] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
599] 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.
600] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman