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1] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
2] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
3] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
4] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
5] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
6] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
7] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
8] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
9] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
10] 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
11] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
12] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
13] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
14] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15] 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.
16] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
17] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
18] 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.”
19] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
20] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
21] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
22] 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
23] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
24] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
25] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
26] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
27] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
28] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
29] 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.
30] 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
31] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
32] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
33] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
34] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
35] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
36] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
37] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
38] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
39] 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.
40] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
41] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
42] 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.
43] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
44] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
45] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
46] 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
47] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
48] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
49] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
50] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
51] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
52] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
53] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
54] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
55] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
56] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
57] 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)
58] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
59] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
60] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
61] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
62] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
63] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
64] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
65] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
66] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
67] 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)
68] 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
69] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
70] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
71] 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)
72] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
73] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
74] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
75] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
76] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
77] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
78] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
79] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
80] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
81] 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
82] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
83] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
84] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
85] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
86] 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
87] 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.
88] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
89] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
90] 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)
91] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
92] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
93] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
94] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
95] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
96] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
97] 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.
98] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
99] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
100] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
101] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
102] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
103] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
104] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
105] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
106] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
107] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
108] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
109] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
110] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
111] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
112] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
113] 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.
114] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
115] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
116] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
117] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
118] 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.
119] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
120] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
121] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
122] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
123] 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
124] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
125] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
126] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
127] 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
128] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
129] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
130] 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.”
131] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
132] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
133] 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
134] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
135] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
136] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
137] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
138] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
139] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
140] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
141] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
142] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
143] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
144] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
145] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
146] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
147] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
148] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
149] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
150] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
151] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
152] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
153] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
154] 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.
155] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
156] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
157] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
158] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
159] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
160] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
161] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
162] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
163] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
164] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
165] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
166] 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
167] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
168] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
169] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
170] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
171] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
172] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
173] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
174] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
175] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
176] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
177] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
178] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
179] 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.
180] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
181] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
182] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
183] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
184] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
185] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
186] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
187] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
188] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
189] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
190] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
191] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
192] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
193] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
194] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
195] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
196] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
197] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
198] 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.
199] 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.
200] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
201] 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.
202] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
203] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
204] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
205] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
206] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
207] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
208] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
209] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
210] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
211] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
212] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
213] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
214] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
215] 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.
216] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
217] 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
218] 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.
219] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
220] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
221] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
222] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
223] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
224] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
225] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
226] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
227] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
228] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
229] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
230] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
231] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
232] 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)
233] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
234] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
235] 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.
236] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
237] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
238] 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.
239] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
240] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
241] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
242] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
243] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
244] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
245] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
246] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
247] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
248] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
249] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
250] 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).
251] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
252] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
253] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
254] 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
255] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
256] 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.
257] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
258] 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.
259] 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
260] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
261] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
262] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
263] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
264] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
265] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
266] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
267] 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
268] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
269] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
270] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
271] 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).
272] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
273] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
274] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
275] 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
276] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
277] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
278] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
279] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
280] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
281] 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.
282] 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
283] 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.
284] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
285] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
286] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
287] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
288] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
289] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
290] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
291] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
292] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
293] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
294] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
295] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
296] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
297] 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.
298] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
299] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
300] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
301] 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
302] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
303] 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.
304] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
305] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
306] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
307] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
308] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
309] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
310] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
311] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
312] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
313] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
314] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
315] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
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] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
318] 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.
319] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
320] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
321] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
322] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
323] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
324] 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.
325] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
326] 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.
327] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
328] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
329] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
330] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
331] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
332] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
333] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
334] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
335] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
336] 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
337] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
338] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
339] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
340] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
341] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
342] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
343] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
344] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
345] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
346] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
347] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
348] 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
349] 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.
350] 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.
351] 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
352] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
353] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
354] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
355] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
356] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
357] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
358] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
359] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
360] 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
361] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
362] 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
363] 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.
364] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
365] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
366] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
367] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
368] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
369] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
370] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
371] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
372] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
373] 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.
374] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
375] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
376] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
377] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
378] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
379] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
380] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
381] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
382] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
383] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
384] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
385] Commonsense is not so common.
386] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
387] 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
388] 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.
389] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
390] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
391] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
392] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
393] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
394] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
395] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
396] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
397] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
398] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
399] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
400] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
401] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
402] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
403] 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.
404] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
405] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
406] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
407] Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
408] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
409] 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
410] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
411] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
412] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
413] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
414] 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
415] 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
416] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
417] If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you”!.
Nikita Khrushchev
418] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
419] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
420] 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
421] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
422] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
423] 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
424] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
425] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
426] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
427] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
428] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
429] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
430] 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
431] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
432] 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.
433] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
434] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
435] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
436] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
437] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
438] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
439] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
440] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
441] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
442] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
443] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
444] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
445] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
446] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
447] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
448] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
449] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
450] 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.
451] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
452] 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.
453] 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)
454] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
455] 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
456] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
457] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
459] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
460] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
461] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
462] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
463] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
464] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
465] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
466] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
467] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
468] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
469] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
470] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
471] 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)
472] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
473] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
474] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
475] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
476] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
477] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
478] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
479] 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
480] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
481] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
482] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
483] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
484] 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.
485] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
486] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
487] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
488] 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.
489] 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
490] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
491] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
492] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
493] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
494] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
495] 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
496] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
497] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
498] 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
499] 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
500] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
501] 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
502] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
503] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
504] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
505] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
506] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
507] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
508] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
509] 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.
510] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
511] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
512] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
513] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
514] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
515] He is so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold (1803 – 1857)
516] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
517] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
518] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
519] 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)
520] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
521] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
522] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
523] 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)
524] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
525] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
526] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
527] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
528] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
529] 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.
530] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
531] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
532] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
533] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
534] 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.
535] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
536] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
537] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
538] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
539] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
540] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
541] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
542] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
543] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
544] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
545] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
546] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
547] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
548] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
549] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
550] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
551] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
552] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
553] 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.
554] 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
555] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
556] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
557] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
558] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
559] 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.
560] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
561] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
562] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
563] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
564] 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.
565] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
566] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
567] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
568] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
569] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
570] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
571] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
572] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
573] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
574] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
575] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
576] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
577] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
578] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
579] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
580] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
581] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
582] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
583] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
584] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
585] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
586] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
587] 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
588] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
589] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
590] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
591] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
592] 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
593] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
594] 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
595] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
596] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
597] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
598] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
599] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
600] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.