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1] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
2] 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.
3] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
4] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
5] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
6] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
7] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
8] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
9] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
10] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
11] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
12] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
13] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
14] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
15] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
16] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
17] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
18] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
19] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
20] 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.
21] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
22] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
23] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
24] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
25] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
26] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
27] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
28] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
29] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
30] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
31] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
32] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
33] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
34] 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)
35] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
36] 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.
37] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
38] 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
39] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
40] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
41] 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
42] 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.
43] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
44] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
45] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
46] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
47] 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.
48] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
49] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
50] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
51] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
52] 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
53] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
54] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
55] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
56] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
57] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
58] 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
59] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
60] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
61] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
62] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
63] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
64] 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
65] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
66] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
67] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
68] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
69] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
70] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
71] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
72] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
73] 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)
74] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
75] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
76] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
77] 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.
78] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
79] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
80] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
81] 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
82] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
83] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
84] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
85] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
86] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
87] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
88] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
89] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
90] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
91] 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.
92] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
93] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
94] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
95] 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.
96] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
97] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
98] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
99] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
100] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
101] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
102] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
103] 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.
104] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
105] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
106] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
107] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
108] 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.
109] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
110] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
111] 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
112] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
113] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
114] 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.
115] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
116] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
117] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
118] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
119] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
120] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
121] 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)
122] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
123] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
124] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
125] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
126] 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.
127] 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]
128] 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
129] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
130] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
131] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
132] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
133] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
134] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
135] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
136] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
137] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
138] 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
139] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
140] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
141] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
142] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
143] 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.
144] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
145] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
146] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
147] No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side. [ There are two sides to even argument, until you take one]
Jdscha Heifetz
148] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
149] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
150] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
151] 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.
152] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
153] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
154] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
155] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
156] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
157] 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.”
158] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
159] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
160] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
161] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
162] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
163] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
164] 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
165] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
166] 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.
167] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
168] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
169] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
170] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
171] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
172] 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
173] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
174] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
175] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
176] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
177] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
178] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
179] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
180] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
181] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
182] 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.
183] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
184] 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)
185] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
186] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
187] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
188] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
189] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
190] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
191] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
192] 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
193] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
194] 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)
195] 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.
196] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
197] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
198] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
199] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
200] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
201] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
202] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
203] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
204] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
205] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
206] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
207] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
208] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
209] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
210] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
211] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
212] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
213] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
214] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
215] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
216] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
217] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
218] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
219] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
220] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
221] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
222] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
223] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
224] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
225] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
226] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
227] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
228] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
229] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
230] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
231] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
232] 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
233] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
234] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
235] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
236] 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.
237] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
238] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
239] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
240] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
241] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
242] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
243] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
244] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
245] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
246] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
247] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
248] 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)
249] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
250] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
251] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
252] 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.
253] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
254] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
255] 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.
256] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
257] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
258] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
259] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
260] 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.
261] 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)
262] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
263] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
264] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
265] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
266] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
267] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
268] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
269] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
270] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
271] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
272] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
273] 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.
274] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
275] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
276] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
277] 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)
278] 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
279] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
280] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
281] 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.
282] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
283] 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.
284] 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
285] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
286] 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.
287] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
288] 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
289] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
290] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
291] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
292] 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.
293] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
294] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
295] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
296] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
297] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
298] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
299] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
300] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
301] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
302] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
303] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
304] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
305] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
306] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
307] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
308] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
309] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
310] 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.
311] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
312] 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)
313] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
314] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
315] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
316] 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.
317] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
318] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
319] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
320] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
321] 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
322] 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.
323] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
324] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
325] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
326] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
327] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
328] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
329] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
330] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
331] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
332] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
333] 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
334] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
335] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
336] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
337] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
338] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
339] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
340] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
341] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
342] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
343] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
344] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
345] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
346] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
347] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
348] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
349] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
350] 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
351] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
352] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
353] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
354] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
355] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
356] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
357] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
358] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
359] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
360] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
361] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
362] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
363] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
364] 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.
365] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
366] 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.
367] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
368] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
369] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
370] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
371] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
372] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
373] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
374] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
375] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
376] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
377] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
378] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
379] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
380] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
381] 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.
382] 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
383] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
384] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
385] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
386] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
387] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
388] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
389] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
390] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
391] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
392] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
393] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
394] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
395] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
396] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
397] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
398] 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
399] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
400] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
401] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
402] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
403] 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.
404] 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.
405] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
406] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
407] 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)
408] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
409] 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
410] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
411] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
412] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
413] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
414] 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.
415] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
416] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
417] 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.
418] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
419] 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
420] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
421] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
422] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
423] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
424] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
425] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
426] 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.
427] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
428] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
429] 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)
430] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
431] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
432] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
433] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
434] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
435] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
436] 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.
437] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
438] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
439] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
440] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
441] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
442] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
443] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
444] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
445] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
446] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
447] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
448] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
449] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
450] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
451] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
452] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
453] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
454] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
455] 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.
456] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
457] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
458] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
459] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
460] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
461] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
462] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
463] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
464] A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience’s tome- more than four days – which should be a hanging off
Jenkin Lloynd Jones.
465] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
466] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
467] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
468] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
469] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
470] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
471] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
472] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
473] 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.
474] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
475] 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.
476] 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.
477] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
478] 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)
479] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
480] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
481] 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.
482] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
483] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
484] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
485] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
486] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
487] 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.
488] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
489] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
490] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
491] 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
492] 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.
493] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
494] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
495] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
496] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
497] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
498] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
499] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
500] 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
501] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
502] 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
503] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
504] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
505] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
506] 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
507] 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
508] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
509] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
510] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
511] Happiness lies in the taste, and not in the things; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy- not from having what others think desirable.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
512] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
513] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
514] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
515] 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).
516] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
517] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
518] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
519] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
520] 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)
521] 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.
522] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
523] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
524] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
525] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
526] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
527] 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
528] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
529] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
530] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
531] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
532] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
533] 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.
534] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
535] 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.
536] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
537] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
538] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
539] 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).
540] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
541] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
542] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
543] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
544] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
545] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
546] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
547] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
548] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
549] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
550] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
551] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
552] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
553] 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
554] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
555] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
556] 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.
557] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
558] 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
559] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
560] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
561] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
562] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
563] 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
564] 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.
565] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
566] 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 .
567] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
568] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
569] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
570] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
571] 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
572] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
573] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
574] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
575] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
576] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
577] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
578] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
579] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
580] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
581] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
582] 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
583] 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.
584] 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)
585] 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
586] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
587] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
588] 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
589] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
590] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
591] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
592] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
593] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
594] 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.
595] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
596] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
597] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
598] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
599] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
600] 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