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1] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
2] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
3] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
4] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
5] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
6] 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).
7] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
8] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
9] 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
10] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
11] 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.
12] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
13] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
14] 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.
15] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
16] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
17] 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
18] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
19] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
20] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
21] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
22] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
23] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
25] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
26] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
27] 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.
28] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
29] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
30] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
31] 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.
32] 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.
33] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
34] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
35] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
36] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
37] 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.
38] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
39] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
40] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
41] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
42] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
43] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
44] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
45] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
46] 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.
47] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
48] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
49] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
50] 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
51] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
52] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
53] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
54] 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
55] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
56] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
57] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
58] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
59] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
60] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
61] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
62] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
63] 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)
64] 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.
65] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
66] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
67] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
68] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
69] 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)
70] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
71] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
72] 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]
73] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
74] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
75] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
76] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
77] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
78] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
79] 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)
80] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
81] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
82] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
83] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
84] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
85] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
86] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
87] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
88] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
89] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
90] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
91] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
92] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
93] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
94] 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 .
95] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
96] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
97] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
98] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
99] 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.
100] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
101] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
102] 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
103] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
104] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
105] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
106] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
107] 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
108] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
109] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
110] 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)
111] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
112] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
113] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
114] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
115] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
116] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
117] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
118] 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
119] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
120] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
121] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
122] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
123] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
124] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
125] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
126] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
127] 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.
128] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
129] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
130] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
131] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
132] 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
133] 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)
134] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
135] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
136] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
137] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
138] 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
139] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
140] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
141] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
142] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
143] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
144] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
145] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
146] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
147] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
148] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
149] 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.
150] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
151] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
152] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
153] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
154] The ultimate good is better veached by free trade in ideas. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
155] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
156] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
157] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
158] 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.”
159] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
160] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
161] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
162] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
163] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
164] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
165] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
166] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
167] 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
168] 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.
169] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
170] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
171] 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
172] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
173] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
174] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
175] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
176] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
177] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
178] 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.
179] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
180] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
181] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
182] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
183] 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.
184] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
185] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
186] 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
187] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
188] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
189] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
190] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
191] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
192] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
193] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
194] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
195] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
196] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
197] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
198] 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.
199] 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.
200] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
201] 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
202] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
203] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
204] 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
205] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
206] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
207] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
208] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
209] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
210] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
211] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
212] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
213] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
214] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
215] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
216] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
217] 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)
218] 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
219] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
220] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
221] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
222] 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.
223] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
224] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
225] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
226] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
227] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
228] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
229] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
230] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
231] Commonsense is not so common.
232] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
233] 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.
234] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
235] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
236] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
237] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
238] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
239] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
240] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
241] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
242] 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.
243] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
244] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
245] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
246] 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.
247] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
248] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
249] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
250] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
251] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
252] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
253] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
254] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
255] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
256] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
257] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
258] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
259] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
260] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
261] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
262] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
263] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
264] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
265] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
266] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
267] 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.
268] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
269] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
270] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
271] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
272] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
273] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
274] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
275] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
276] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
277] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
278] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
279] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
280] 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
281] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
282] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
283] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
284] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
285] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
286] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
287] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
288] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
289] 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
290] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
291] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
292] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
293] 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.
294] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
295] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
296] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
297] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
298] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
299] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
300] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
301] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
302] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
303] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
304] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
305] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
306] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
308] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
309] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
310] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
311] 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.
312] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
313] 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
314] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
315] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
316] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
317] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
318] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
319] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
320] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
321] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
322] 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
323] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
324] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
325] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
326] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
327] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
328] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
329] 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.
330] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
331] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
332] 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.
333] 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
334] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
335] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
336] 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
337] 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.”
338] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
339] 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.
340] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
341] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
342] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
343] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
344] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
345] 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
346] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
347] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
348] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
349] 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)
350] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
351] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
352] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
353] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
354] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
355] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
356] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
357] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
358] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
359] 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.
360] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
361] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
362] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
363] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
364] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
365] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
366] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
367] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
368] 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
369] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
370] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
372] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
373] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
374] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
375] 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
376] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
377] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
378] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
379] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
380] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
381] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
382] 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
383] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
384] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
385] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
386] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
387] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
388] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
389] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
390] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
391] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
392] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
393] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
394] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
395] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
396] 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
397] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
398] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
399] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
400] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
401] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
402] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
403] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
404] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
405] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
406] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
407] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
408] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
409] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
410] 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.
411] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
412] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
413] 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.
414] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
415] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
416] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
417] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
418] 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.
419] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
420] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
421] 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.
422] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
423] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
424] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
425] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
426] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
427] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
428] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
429] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
430] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
431] 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 .
432] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
433] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
434] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
435] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
436] 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
437] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
438] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
439] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
440] When we lose our individual independence in the corporate ness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom – to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.
Eric Hoffer.
441] 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
442] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
443] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
444] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
445] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
446] 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.
447] 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
448] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
449] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
450] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
451] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
452] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
453] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
454] 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
455] 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)
456] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
457] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
458] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
459] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
460] 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.
461] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
462] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
463] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
464] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
465] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
466] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
467] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
468] 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
469] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
470] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
471] 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.
472] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
473] 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.
474] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
475] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
476] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
477] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
478] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
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] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
481] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
482] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
483] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
484] 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)
485] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
486] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
487] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
488] 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
489] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
490] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
491] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
492] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
493] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
494] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
495] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
496] 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.
497] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
498] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
499] 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).
500] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
501] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
502] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
503] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
504] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
505] 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
506] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
507] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
508] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
509] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
510] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
511] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
512] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
513] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
514] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
515] 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.
516] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
517] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
518] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
519] 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)
520] 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.
521] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
522] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
523] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
524] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
525] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
526] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
527] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
528] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
529] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
530] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
531] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
532] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
533] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
534] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
535] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
536] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
537] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
538] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
539] 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.
540] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
541] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
542] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
543] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
544] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
545] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
546] 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
547] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
548] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
549] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
550] 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
551] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
552] 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.
553] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
554] 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
555] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
556] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
557] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
558] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
559] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
560] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
561] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
562] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
563] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
564] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
565] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
566] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
567] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
568] 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).
569] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
570] 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)
571] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
572] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
573] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
574] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
575] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
576] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
577] 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
578] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
579] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
580] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
581] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
582] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
583] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
584] 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.
585] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
586] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
587] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
588] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
589] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
590] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
591] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
592] 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)
593] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
594] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
595] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
596] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
597] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
598] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
599] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
600] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.