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1] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
2] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
3] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
4] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
5] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
6] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
7] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
8] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
9] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
10] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
11] 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.
12] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
13] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
14] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
15] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
16] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
17] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
18] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
19] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
20] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
21] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
22] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
23] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
24] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
25] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
26] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
27] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
28] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
29] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
30] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
31] 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.
32] 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.
33] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
34] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
35] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
36] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
37] 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.
38] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
39] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
40] 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.
41] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
42] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
43] 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
44] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
45] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
46] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
47] If you have a strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in gas chamber.
John . P. Marquand.
48] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
49] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
50] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
51] 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)
52] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
53] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
54] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
55] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
56] Nothing multiplies more easily than force. In its grossest and most be that form, force is represented by groupings of people in to nations. This makes possible a concentration of collective effort with a minimum of restraint and a maximum of fury.
Norman Cousins.
57] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
58] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
59] 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
60] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
61] 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.
62] Commonsense is not so common.
63] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
64] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
65] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
66] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
67] 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
68] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
69] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
70] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
71] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
72] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
73] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
74] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
75] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
76] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
77] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
78] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
79] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
80] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
81] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
82] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
83] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
84] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
85] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
86] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
87] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
88] Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard. M. Nixon.
89] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
90] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
91] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
92] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
93] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
94] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
95] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
96] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
97] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
98] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
99] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
100] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
101] 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
102] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
103] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
104] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
105] 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
106] 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.
107] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
108] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
109] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
110] 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 .
111] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
112] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
113] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
114] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
115] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
116] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
117] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
118] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
119] 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)
120] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
121] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
122] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
123] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
124] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
125] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
126] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
127] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
128] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
129] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
130] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
131] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
132] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
133] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
134] 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.
135] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
136] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
137] 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]
138] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
139] 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.
140] 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)
141] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
142] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
143] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
144] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
145] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
146] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
147] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
148] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
149] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
150] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
151] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
152] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
153] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
154] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
155] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
156] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
157] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
158] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
159] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
160] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
161] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
162] 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
163] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
164] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
165] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
166] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
167] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
168] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
169] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
170] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
171] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
172] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
173] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
174] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
175] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
176] 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
177] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
178] 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
179] 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
180] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
181] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
182] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
183] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
184] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
185] 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
186] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
187] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
188] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
189] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
190] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
191] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
192] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
193] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
194] 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.
195] 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
196] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
197] 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.
198] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
199] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
200] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
201] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
202] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
203] 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.
204] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
205] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
206] 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).
207] 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
208] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
209] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
210] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
211] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
212] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
213] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
214] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
215] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
216] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
217] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
218] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
219] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
221] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
222] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
223] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
224] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
225] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
226] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
227] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
228] 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)
229] 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
230] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
231] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
232] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
233] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
234] 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.
235] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
236] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
237] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
238] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
239] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
240] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
241] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
242] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
243] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
244] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
245] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
246] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
247] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
248] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
249] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
250] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
251] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
252] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
253] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
254] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
255] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
256] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
257] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
258] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
259] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
260] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
261] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
262] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
263] 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
264] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
265] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
266] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
267] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
268] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
269] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
270] 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)
271] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
272] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
273] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
274] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
275] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
276] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
277] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
278] 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)
279] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
280] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
281] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
282] 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
283] 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.
284] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
285] 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.
286] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
287] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
288] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
289] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
290] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
291] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
292] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
293] 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.
294] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
295] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
296] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
297] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
298] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
299] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
300] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
301] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
302] 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.
303] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
304] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
305] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
306] 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
307] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
308] 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)
309] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
310] 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.
311] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
312] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
313] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
314] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
315] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
316] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
317] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
318] 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
319] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
320] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
321] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
322] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
323] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
324] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
325] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
326] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
327] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
328] 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)
329] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
330] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
331] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
332] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
333] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
334] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
335] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
336] 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.
337] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
338] 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
339] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
340] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
341] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
342] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
343] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
344] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
345] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
346] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
347] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
348] Commonsense is not so common.
349] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
350] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
351] 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.
352] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
353] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
354] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
355] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
356] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
357] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
358] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
359] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
360] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
361] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
362] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
363] 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.
364] 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.
365] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
366] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
367] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
368] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
369] 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
370] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
371] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
372] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
373] 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
374] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
375] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
376] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
377] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
378] 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
379] 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
380] 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.
381] 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
382] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
383] 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
384] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
385] 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.
386] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
387] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
388] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
389] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
390] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
391] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
392] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
393] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
394] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
395] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
396] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
397] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
398] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
399] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
400] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
401] 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.
402] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
403] 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)
404] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
405] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
406] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
407] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
408] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
409] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
410] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
411] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
412] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
413] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
414] 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.
415] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
416] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
417] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
418] 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
419] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
420] 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.
421] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
422] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
423] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
424] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
425] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
426] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
427] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
428] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
429] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
430] 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
431] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
432] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
433] 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)
434] 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.
435] 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.
436] 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
437] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
438] 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.
439] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
440] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
441] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
442] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
443] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
444] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
445] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
446] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
447] 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.
448] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
449] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
450] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
451] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
452] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
453] 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
454] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
455] 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)
456] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
457] 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.
458] 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
459] 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
460] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
461] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
462] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
463] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
464] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
465] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
466] 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
467] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
468] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
469] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
470] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
471] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
472] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
473] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
474] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
475] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
476] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
477] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
478] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
479] 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.
480] 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
481] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
482] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
483] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
484] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
485] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
486] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
487] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
488] 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.
489] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
490] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
491] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
492] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
493] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
494] 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
495] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
496] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
497] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
498] 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.
499] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
500] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
501] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
502] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
503] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
504] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
505] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
506] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
507] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
508] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
509] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
510] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
511] 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.
512] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
513] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
514] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
515] 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)
516] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
517] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
518] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
519] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
520] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
521] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
522] 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)
523] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
524] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
525] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
526] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
527] 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.
528] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
529] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
530] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
531] 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.
532] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
533] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
534] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
535] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
536] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
537] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
538] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
539] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
540] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
541] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
542] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
543] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
544] 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
545] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
546] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
547] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
548] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
549] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
550] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
551] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
552] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
553] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
554] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
555] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
556] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
557] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
558] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
559] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
560] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
561] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
562] 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
563] Love is the word used to express the sexual excitement of the young, the `habituation of the middle aged and the mutual dependency of the old.
John Ciaraci.
564] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
565] In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Booker. T. Washington.
566] 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
567] 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.
568] 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)
569] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
570] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
571] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
572] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
573] 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.
574] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
575] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
576] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
577] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
578] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
579] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
580] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
581] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
582] 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.
583] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
584] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
585] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
586] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
587] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
588] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
589] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
590] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
591] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
592] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
593] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
594] Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. [We have to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.]
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
595] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
596] 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.
597] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
598] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
599] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
600] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.