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1] 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.
2] 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
3] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
4] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
5] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
6] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
7] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
8] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
9] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
10] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
11] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thorean
12] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
13] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
14] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
15] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
16] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
17] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
18] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
19] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
20] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
21] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
22] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
23] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
24] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
25] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
26] 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
27] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
28] 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.
29] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
30] 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
31] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
32] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
33] 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.
34] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
35] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
36] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
37] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
38] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
39] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
40] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
41] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
42] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
43] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
44] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
45] 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)
46] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
47] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
48] When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buck minister Fuller
49] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
50] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
51] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
52] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
53] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
54] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
55] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
56] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
57] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
58] 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
59] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
60] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
61] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
62] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
63] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
64] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
65] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
66] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
67] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
68] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
69] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
70] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
71] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
72] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
73] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
74] 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
75] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
76] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
77] 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.
78] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
79] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
80] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
81] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
82] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
83] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
84] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
85] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
86] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
87] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
88] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
89] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
90] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
91] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
92] 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
93] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
94] 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
95] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
96] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
97] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
98] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
99] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
100] 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.
101] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
102] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
103] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
104] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
105] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
106] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
107] 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
108] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
109] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
110] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
111] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
112] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
113] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
114] 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
115] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
116] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
117] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
118] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
119] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
120] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
121] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
122] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
123] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
124] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
125] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
126] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
127] 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
128] 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)
129] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
130] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
131] 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
132] 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
133] 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
134] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
135] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
136] Commonsense is not so common.
137] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
138] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
139] 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.
140] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
141] 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.
142] There is nothing new under the sun. –
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143] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
144] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
145] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
146] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
147] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
148] 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
149] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
150] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
151] 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)
152] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
153] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
154] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
155] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
156] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
157] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
158] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
159] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
160] 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.
161] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
162] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
163] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
164] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
165] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
166] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
167] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
168] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
169] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
170] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
171] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
172] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
173] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
174] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
175] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
176] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
177] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
178] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
179] 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
180] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
181] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
182] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
183] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
184] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
185] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
186] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
187] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
188] 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.
189] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
190] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
191] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
192] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
193] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
194] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
195] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
196] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
197] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
198] 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.
199] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
200] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
201] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
202] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
203] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
204] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
205] 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
206] 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
207] 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.
208] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
209] 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
210] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
211] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
212] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
213] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
214] 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)
215] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
216] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
217] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
218] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
219] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
220] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
221] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
222] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
223] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
224] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
225] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
226] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
227] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
228] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
229] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
230] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
231] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
232] 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
233] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
234] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
235] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
236] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
237] 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.
238] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
239] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
240] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
241] 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
242] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
243] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
244] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
245] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
246] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
247] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
248] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
249] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
250] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
251] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
252] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
253] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
254] 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.
255] 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
256] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
257] 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.
258] 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.
259] 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
260] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
261] 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
262] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
263] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
264] 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
265] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
266] 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)
267] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
268] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
269] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
270] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
271] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
272] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
273] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
274] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
275] 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.
276] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
277] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
278] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
279] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
280] 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
281] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
282] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
283] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
284] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
285] 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
286] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
287] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
288] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
289] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
290] 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
291] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
292] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
293] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
294] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
295] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
296] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
297] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
298] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
299] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
300] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
301] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
302] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
303] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
304] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
305] 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
306] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
307] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
308] 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.
309] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
310] 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.
311] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
312] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
313] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
314] 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)
315] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
316] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
317] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
318] 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.
319] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
320] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
321] 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.”
322] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
323] 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.
324] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
325] 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.
326] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
327] We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on as hot stove – lid again – and that’s well; but also she will never sit
Mark Twain.
328] 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
329] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
330] 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)
331] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
332] 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
333] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
334] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
335] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
336] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
337] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
338] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
339] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
340] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
341] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
342] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
343] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
344] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
345] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
346] 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.
347] 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.
348] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
349] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
350] 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.
351] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
352] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
353] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
354] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
355] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
356] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
357] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
358] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
359] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
360] 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.
361] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
362] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
363] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
364] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
365] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
366] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
367] 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
368] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
369] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
370] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
371] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
372] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
373] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
374] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
375] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
376] 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.
377] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
378] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
379] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
380] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
381] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
382] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
383] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
384] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
385] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
386] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
387] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
388] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
389] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
390] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
391] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
392] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
393] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
394] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
395] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
396] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
397] I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau. (1817 – 1862)
398] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
399] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
400] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
401] 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.
402] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
403] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
404] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
405] 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)
406] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
407] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
408] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
409] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
410] 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).
411] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
412] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
413] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
414] Commonsense is not so common.
415] 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
416] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
417] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
418] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
419] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
420] 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)
421] 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
422] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
423] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
424] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
425] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
426] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
427] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
428] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
429] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
430] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
431] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
432] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
433] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
434] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
435] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
436] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
437] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
438] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
439] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
440] 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
441] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
442] 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
443] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
444] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
445] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
446] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
447] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
448] 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.
449] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
450] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
451] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
452] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
453] 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.
454] 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.
455] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
456] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
457] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
458] 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)
459] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
460] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
461] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
462] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
463] 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)
464] 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)
465] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
466] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
467] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
468] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
469] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
470] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
471] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
472] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
473] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
474] 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
475] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
476] 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
477] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
478] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
479] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
480] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
481] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
482] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
483] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
484] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
485] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
486] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
487] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
488] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
489] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
490] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
491] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
492] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
493] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
494] 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
495] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
496] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
497] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
498] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
499] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
500] 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).
501] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
502] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
503] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
504] 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.
505] 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)
506] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
507] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
508] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
509] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
510] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
511] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
512] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
513] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
514] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
515] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
516] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
517] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
518] 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
519] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
520] The best thing and best people rise out of their separateness; I’ am against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost.
521] 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.
522] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
523] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
524] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
525] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
526] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
527] 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.
528] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
529] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
530] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
531] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
532] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
533] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
534] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
535] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
536] 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.
537] 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
538] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
539] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
540] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
541] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
542] 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.
543] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
544] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
545] 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
546] 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
547] 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.
548] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
549] 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.
550] 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
551] 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
552] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
553] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
554] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
555] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
556] 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
557] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
558] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
559] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
560] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
561] 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.
562] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
563] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
564] 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)
565] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
566] 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.
567] 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
568] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
569] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
570] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
571] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
572] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
573] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
574] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
575] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
576] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
577] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
578] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
579] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
580] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
581] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
582] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
583] 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.
584] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
585] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
586] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
587] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
588] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
589] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
590] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
591] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
592] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
593] 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).
594] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
595] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
596] 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.
597] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
598] 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
599] 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.
600] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.