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1] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
2] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
3] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
4] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
5] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
6] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
7] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
8] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
9] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
10] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
11] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
12] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
13] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
14] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
15] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
16] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
17] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
18] 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.
19] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
20] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
21] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
22] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
23] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
24] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
25] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
26] 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.
27] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
28] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
29] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
30] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
31] 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.
32] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
33] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
34] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
35] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
36] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
37] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
38] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
39] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
40] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
41] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
42] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
43] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
44] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
45] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
46] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
47] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
48] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
49] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
50] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
51] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
52] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
53] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
54] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
55] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
56] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
57] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
58] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
59] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
60] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
61] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
62] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
63] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
64] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
65] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
66] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
67] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
68] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
69] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
70] 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
71] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
72] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
73] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
74] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
75] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
76] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
77] 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.
78] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
79] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
80] 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)
81] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
82] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
83] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
84] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
85] 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.
86] 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.
87] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
88] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
89] 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.
90] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
91] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
92] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
93] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
94] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
95] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
96] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
97] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
98] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
99] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
100] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
101] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
102] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
103] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
104] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
105] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
106] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
107] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
108] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
109] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
110] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
111] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
112] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
113] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
114] 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.
115] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
116] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
117] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
118] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
119] 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.
120] 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
121] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
122] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
123] 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.
124] 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
125] 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.
126] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
127] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
128] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
129] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
130] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
131] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
132] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
133] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
134] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
135] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
136] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
137] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
138] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
139] 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.
140] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
141] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
142] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
143] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
144] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
145] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
146] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
147] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
148] 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
149] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
150] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
151] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
152] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
153] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
154] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
155] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
156] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
157] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
158] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
159] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
160] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
161] 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
162] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
163] 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.
164] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
165] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
166] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
167] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
168] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
169] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
170] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
171] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
172] 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.
173] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
174] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
175] 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
176] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
177] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
178] 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
179] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
180] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
181] 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)
182] 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.
183] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
184] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
185] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
186] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
187] 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.
188] 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
189] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
190] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
191] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
192] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
193] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
194] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
195] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
196] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
197] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
198] 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)
199] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
200] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
201] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
202] 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
203] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
204] 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
205] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
206] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
207] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
208] 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
209] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
210] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
211] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
212] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
213] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
214] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
215] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
216] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
217] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
218] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
219] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
220] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
221] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
222] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
223] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
224] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
225] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
226] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
227] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
228] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
229] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
230] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
231] 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).
232] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
233] 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
234] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
235] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
236] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
237] 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
238] 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.
239] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
240] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
241] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
242] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
243] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
244] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
245] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
246] 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)
247] 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
248] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
249] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
250] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
251] 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.”
252] 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.
253] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
254] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
255] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
256] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
257] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
258] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
259] 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.
260] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
261] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
262] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
263] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
264] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
265] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
266] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
267] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
268] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
269] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
270] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
271] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
272] 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)
273] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
274] 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.
275] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
276] It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
277] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
278] 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
279] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
280] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
281] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
282] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
283] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
284] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
285] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
286] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
287] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
288] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
289] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
290] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
291] 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.
292] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
293] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
294] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
295] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
296] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
297] 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
298] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
299] 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
300] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
301] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
302] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
303] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
304] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
305] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
306] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
307] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
308] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
309] 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
310] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
311] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
312] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
313] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
314] 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.
315] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
316] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
317] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
318] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
319] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
320] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
321] 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
322] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
323] 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.
324] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
325] 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.
326] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
327] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
328] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
329] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
330] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
331] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
332] 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.
333] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
334] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
335] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
336] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
337] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
338] 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
339] 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
340] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
341] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
342] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
343] 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.
344] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
345] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
346] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
347] 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
348] 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
349] When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his death bed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
350] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
351] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
352] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
353] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
354] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
355] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
356] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
357] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
358] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
359] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
360] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
361] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
362] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
363] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
364] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
365] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
366] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
367] 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.
368] 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.
369] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
370] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
371] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
372] 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)
373] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
374] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
375] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
376] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
377] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
378] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
379] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
380] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
381] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
382] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
383] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
384] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
385] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
386] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
387] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
388] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
389] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
390] 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)
391] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
392] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
393] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
394] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
395] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
396] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
397] 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
398] 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)
399] 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
400] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
401] 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
402] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
403] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
404] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
405] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
406] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
407] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
408] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
409] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
410] 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)
411] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
412] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
413] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
414] 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.
415] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
416] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
417] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
418] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
419] 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
420] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
421] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
422] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
423] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
424] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
425] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
426] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
427] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
428] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
429] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
430] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
431] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
432] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
433] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
434] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
435] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
436] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
437] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
438] 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).
439] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
440] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
441] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
442] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
443] 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
444] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
445] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
446] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
447] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
448] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
449] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
450] 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.
451] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
452] Commonsense is not so common.
453] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
454] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
455] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
456] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
457] 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.
458] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
459] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
460] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
461] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
462] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
463] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
464] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
465] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
466] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
467] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
468] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
469] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
470] 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
471] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
472] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
473] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
474] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
475] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
476] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
477] 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
478] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
479] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
480] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
481] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
482] 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.
483] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
484] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
485] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
486] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
487] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
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] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
490] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
491] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
492] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
493] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
494] The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S.Mc Candless
495] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
496] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
497] 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)
498] 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.
499] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
500] 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
501] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
502] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
503] 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.
504] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
505] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
506] 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
507] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
508] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
509] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
510] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
511] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
512] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
513] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
514] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
515] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
516] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
517] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
518] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
519] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
520] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
521] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
522] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
523] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
524] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
525] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
526] 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.
527] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
528] 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.
529] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
530] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
531] 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.
532] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
533] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
534] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
535] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
536] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
537] 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.
538] 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.
539] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
540] 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
541] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
542] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
543] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
544] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
545] 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.
546] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
547] 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).
548] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
549] 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.
550] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
551] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
552] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
553] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
554] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
555] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
556] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
557] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
558] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
559] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
560] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
561] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
562] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
563] 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
564] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
565] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
566] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
567] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
568] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
569] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
570] 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
571] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
572] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
573] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
574] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
575] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
576] 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
577] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
578] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
579] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
580] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
581] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
582] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
583] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
584] 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
585] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
586] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
587] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
588] 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.
589] 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.
590] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
591] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
592] 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
593] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
594] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
595] 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)
596] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
597] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
598] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
599] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
600] 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.