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1] 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.
2] 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
3] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
4] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
5] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
6] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
7] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
8] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
9] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
10] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
11] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
12] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
13] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
14] 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.
15] 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.
16] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
17] 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
18] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
19] 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
20] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
21] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
22] 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
23] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
24] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
25] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
26] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
27] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
28] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
29] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
30] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
31] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
32] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
33] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
34] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
35] 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)
36] 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.
37] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
38] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
39] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
40] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
41] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
42] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
43] 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.
44] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
45] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
46] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
47] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
48] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
49] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
50] 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.”
51] 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.
52] 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)
53] 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
54] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
55] 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.
56] 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.
57] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
58] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
59] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
60] 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
61] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
62] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
63] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
64] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
65] 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.
66] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
67] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
68] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
69] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
70] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
71] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
72] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
73] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
74] 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
75] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
76] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
77] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
78] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
79] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
80] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
81] 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.
82] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
83] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
84] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
85] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
86] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
87] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
88] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
89] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
90] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
91] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
92] 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
93] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
94] 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
95] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
96] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
97] 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
98] 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)
99] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
100] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
101] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
102] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
103] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
104] 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).
105] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
106] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
107] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
108] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
109] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
110] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
111] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
112] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
113] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
114] 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)
115] It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement – they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is true value in life.
Sigmund frued.
116] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
117] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
118] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
119] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
120] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
121] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
122] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
123] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
124] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
125] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
126] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
127] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
128] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
129] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
130] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
131] 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.”
132] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
133] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
134] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
135] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
136] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
137] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
138] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
139] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
140] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
141] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
142] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
143] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
144] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
145] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
146] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
147] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
148] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
149] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
150] 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)
151] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
152] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
153] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
154] 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
155] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
156] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
157] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
158] 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)
159] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
160] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
161] When ever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James.
162] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
163] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
164] 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
165] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
166] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
167] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
168] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
169] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
170] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
171] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
172] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
173] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
174] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
175] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
176] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
177] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
178] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
179] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
180] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
181] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
182] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
183] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
184] 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)
185] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
186] 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.
187] 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.
188] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
189] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
190] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
191] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
192] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
193] 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
194] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
195] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
196] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
197] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
198] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
199] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
200] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
201] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
202] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
203] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
204] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
205] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
206] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
207] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
208] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
209] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
210] 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.
211] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
212] 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.
213] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
214] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
215] 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.
216] 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.
217] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
218] 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.
219] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
220] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
221] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
222] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
223] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
224] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
225] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
226] 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
227] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
228] 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.
229] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
230] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
231] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
232] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
233] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
234] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
235] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
236] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
237] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
238] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
239] 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
240] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
241] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
242] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
243] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
244] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
245] 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
246] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
247] 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.
248] 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
249] 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
250] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
251] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
252] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
253] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
254] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
255] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
256] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
257] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
258] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
259] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
260] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
261] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
262] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
263] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
264] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
265] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
266] 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).
267] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
268] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
269] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
270] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
271] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
272] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
273] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
274] 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
275] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
276] 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
277] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
278] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
279] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
280] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
281] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
282] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
283] 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
284] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
285] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
286] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
287] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
288] The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts it from so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates (460? – 370BC)
289] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
290] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
291] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
292] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
293] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
294] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
295] 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)
296] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
297] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
298] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
299] 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.
300] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
301] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
302] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
303] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
304] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
305] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
306] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
307] 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 .
308] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
309] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
310] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
311] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
312] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
313] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
314] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
315] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
316] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
317] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
318] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
319] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
320] 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.
321] 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
322] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
323] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
324] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
325] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
326] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
327] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
328] 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
329] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
330] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
331] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
332] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
333] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
334] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
335] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
336] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
337] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
338] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
339] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
340] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
341] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
342] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
343] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
344] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
345] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
346] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
347] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
348] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
349] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
350] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
351] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
352] 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
353] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
354] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
355] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
356] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
357] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
358] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
359] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
360] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
361] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
362] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
363] 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.
364] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
365] 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.
366] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
367] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
368] 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.
369] 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.
370] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
371] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
372] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
373] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
374] 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
375] Commonsense is not so common.
376] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
377] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
378] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
379] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
380] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
381] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
382] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
383] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
384] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
385] 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.
386] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
387] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
388] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
389] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
390] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
391] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
392] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
393] 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)
394] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
395] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
396] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
397] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
398] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
399] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
400] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
401] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
402] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
403] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
404] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
405] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
406] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
407] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
408] 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.
409] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
410] 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.
411] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
412] 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
413] 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.
414] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
415] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
416] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
417] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
418] 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.
419] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
420] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
421] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
422] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
423] 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
424] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
425] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
426] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
427] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
428] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
429] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
430] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
431] 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.
432] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
433] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
434] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
435] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
436] 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.
437] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
438] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
439] 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.
440] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
441] 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
442] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
443] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
444] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
445] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
446] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
447] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
448] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
449] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
450] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
451] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
452] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
453] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
454] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
455] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
456] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
457] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
458] 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.
459] 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
460] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
461] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
462] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
463] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
464] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
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] 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.
467] 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
468] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
469] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
470] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
471] 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
472] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
473] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
474] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
475] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
476] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
477] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
478] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
479] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
480] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
481] 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.
482] My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles .M . Schulz.
483] 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
484] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
485] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
486] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
487] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
488] 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
489] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
490] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
491] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
492] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
493] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
494] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
495] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
496] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
497] 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.
498] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
499] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
500] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
501] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
502] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
503] 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
504] 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
505] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
506] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
507] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
508] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
509] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
510] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
511] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
512] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
513] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
514] 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
515] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
516] 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)
517] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
518] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
519] 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
520] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
521] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
522] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
523] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
524] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
525] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
526] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
527] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
528] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
529] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
530] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
531] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
532] 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)
533] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
534] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
535] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
536] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
537] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
538] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
539] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
540] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
541] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
542] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
543] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
544] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
545] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
546] 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
547] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
548] 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.
549] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
550] 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)
551] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
552] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
553] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
554] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
555] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
556] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
557] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
558] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
559] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
560] 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)
561] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
562] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
563] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
564] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
565] 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.
566] 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)
567] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
568] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
569] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
570] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
571] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
572] 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.
573] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
574] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
575] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
576] 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
577] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
578] 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.
579] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
580] 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)
581] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
582] 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
583] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
584] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
585] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
586] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
587] 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
588] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
589] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
590] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
591] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
592] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
593] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
594] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
595] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
596] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
597] 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
598] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
599] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
600] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.