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1] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
2] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
3] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
4] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
5] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
6] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
7] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
8] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
9] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
10] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
11] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
12] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
13] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
14] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
15] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
16] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
17] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
18] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
19] 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
20] 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
21] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
22] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
23] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
24] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
25] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
26] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
27] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
28] 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.
29] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
30] 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]
31] 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.
32] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
33] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
34] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
35] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
36] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
37] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
38] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
39] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
40] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
41] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
42] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
43] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
44] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
45] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
46] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
47] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
48] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
49] 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)
50] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
51] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
52] 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
53] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
55] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
56] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
57] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
58] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
59] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
60] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
61] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
62] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
63] 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)
64] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
65] 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
66] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
67] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
68] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
69] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
70] 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
71] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
72] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
73] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
74] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
75] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
76] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
77] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
78] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
79] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
80] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
81] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
82] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
83] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
84] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
85] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
86] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
87] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
88] 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.
89] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
90] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
91] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
92] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
93] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
94] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
95] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
96] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
97] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
98] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
99] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
100] 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.
101] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
102] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
103] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
104] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
105] 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 .
106] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
107] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
108] 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.
109] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
110] 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
111] 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
112] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
113] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
114] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
115] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
116] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
117] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
118] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
119] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
120] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
121] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
122] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
123] 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.
124] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
125] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
126] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
127] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
128] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
129] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
130] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
131] 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.
132] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
133] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
134] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
135] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
136] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
137] 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.
138] 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
139] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
140] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
141] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
142] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
143] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
145] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
146] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
147] Commonsense is not so common.
148] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
149] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
150] 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.
151] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
152] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
153] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
154] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
155] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
156] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
157] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
158] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
159] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
160] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
161] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
162] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
163] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
164] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
165] 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.
166] 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.
167] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
168] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
169] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
170] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
171] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
172] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
173] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
174] 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.
175] 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.
176] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
177] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
178] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
179] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
180] 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.
181] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
182] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
183] 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.
184] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
185] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
186] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
187] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
188] 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.
189] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
190] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
191] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
192] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
193] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
194] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
195] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
196] 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.
197] 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
198] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
199] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
200] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
201] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
202] 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.
203] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
204] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
205] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
206] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
207] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
208] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
209] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
210] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
211] 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.
212] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
213] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
214] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
215] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
216] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
217] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
218] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
219] 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)
220] 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.
221] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
222] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
223] 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
224] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
225] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
226] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
227] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
228] 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.
229] 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
230] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
231] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
232] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
233] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
234] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
235] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
236] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
237] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
238] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
239] 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.
240] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
241] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
242] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
243] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
244] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
245] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
246] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
247] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
248] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
249] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
250] 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
251] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
252] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
253] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
254] 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
255] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
256] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
257] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
258] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
259] 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).
260] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
261] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
262] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
263] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
264] 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).
265] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
266] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
267] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
268] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
269] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
270] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
271] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
272] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
273] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
274] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
275] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
276] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
277] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
278] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
279] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
280] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
281] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
282] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
283] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
284] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
285] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
286] 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.
287] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
288] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
289] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
290] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
291] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
292] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
293] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
294] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
295] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
296] 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
297] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
298] 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.
299] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
300] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
301] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
302] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
303] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
304] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
305] 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
306] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
307] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
308] 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.
309] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
310] 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.
311] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
312] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
313] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
314] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
315] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
316] 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)
317] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
318] Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security.
A.P. Gouthey
319] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
320] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
321] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
322] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
323] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
324] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
325] 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.
326] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
327] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
328] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
329] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
330] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
331] 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.
332] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
333] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
334] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
335] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
336] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
337] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
338] 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
339] 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.
340] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
341] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
342] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
343] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
344] 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
345] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
346] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
347] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
348] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
349] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
350] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
351] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
352] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
353] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
354] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
355] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
356] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
357] 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.
358] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
359] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
360] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
361] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
362] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
363] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
364] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
365] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
366] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
367] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
368] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
369] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
370] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
371] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
372] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
373] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
374] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
375] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
376] 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.
377] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
378] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
379] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
380] 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.
381] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
382] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
383] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
384] 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.
385] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
386] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
387] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
388] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
389] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
390] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
391] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
392] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
393] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
394] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
395] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
396] 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.
397] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
398] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
399] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
400] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
401] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
402] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
403] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
404] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
405] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
406] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
407] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
408] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
409] 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.
410] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
411] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
412] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
413] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
414] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
415] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
416] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
417] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
418] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
419] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
420] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
421] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
422] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
423] 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
424] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
425] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
426] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
427] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
428] 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)
429] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
430] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
431] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
432] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
433] 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)
434] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
435] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
436] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
437] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
438] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
439] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
440] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
441] 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.
442] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
443] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
444] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
445] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
446] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
447] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
448] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
449] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
450] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
451] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
452] 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
453] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
454] 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.
455] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
456] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
457] 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.
458] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
459] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
460] 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
461] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
462] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
463] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
464] Commonsense is not so common.
465] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
466] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
467] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
468] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
469] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
470] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
471] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
472] 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
473] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
474] 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
475] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
476] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
477] 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.
478] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
479] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
480] 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
481] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
482] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
483] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
484] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
485] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
486] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
487] 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.
488] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
489] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
490] 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.
491] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
492] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
493] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
494] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
495] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
496] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
497] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
498] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
499] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
500] 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)
501] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
502] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
503] 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.
504] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
505] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
506] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
507] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
508] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
509] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
510] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
511] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
512] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
513] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
514] 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.
515] 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).
516] 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.
517] 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
518] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
519] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
520] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
521] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
522] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
523] 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.”
524] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
525] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
526] 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.
527] 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
528] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
529] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
530] 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)
531] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
532] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
533] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
534] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
535] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
536] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
537] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
538] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
539] 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.
540] 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
541] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
542] 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
543] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
544] 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
545] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
546] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
547] 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
548] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
549] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
550] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
551] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
552] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
553] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
554] 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)
555] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
556] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
557] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
558] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
559] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
560] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
561] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
562] 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.
563] 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.
564] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
565] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
566] 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
567] 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.
568] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
569] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
570] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
571] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
572] 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
573] 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
574] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
575] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
576] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
577] 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)
578] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
579] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
580] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
581] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
582] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
583] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
584] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
585] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
586] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
587] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
588] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
589] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
590] 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.
591] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
592] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
593] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
594] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
595] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
596] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
597] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
598] 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
599] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
600] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.