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1] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
2] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
3] 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.
4] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
5] 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).
6] 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
7] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
8] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
9] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
10] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
11] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
12] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
13] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
14] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
15] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
16] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
17] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
18] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
19] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
20] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
21] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
22] Anyone who stops is old, whether at twenty or eight. Anyone who keep learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.
23] 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
24] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
25] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
26] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
27] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
28] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
29] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
30] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
31] 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.
32] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
33] 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.
34] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
35] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
36] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
37] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
38] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
39] 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.
40] 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).
41] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
42] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
43] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
44] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
45] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
46] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
47] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
48] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
49] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
50] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
51] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
52] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
53] 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.
54] 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
55] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
56] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
57] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
58] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
59] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
60] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
61] 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.
62] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
63] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
64] 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.
65] 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
66] 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
67] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
68] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
69] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
70] 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)
71] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
72] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
73] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
74] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
75] 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
76] 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.
77] 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
78] 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.
79] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
80] 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 .
81] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
82] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
83] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
84] 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.
85] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
86] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
87] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
88] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
89] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
90] 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.
91] 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.
92] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
93] It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain.
94] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
95] 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 .
96] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
97] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
98] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
99] 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.
100] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
101] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
102] 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
103] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
104] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
105] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
106] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
107] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
108] 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
109] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
110] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
111] 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)
112] 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.
113] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
114] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
115] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
116] 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)
117] 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.
118] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
119] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
120] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
121] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
122] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
123] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
124] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
125] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
126] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
127] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
128] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
129] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
130] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
131] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
132] 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.
133] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
134] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
135] 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)
136] 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)
137] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
138] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
139] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
140] 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
141] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
142] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
143] 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.
144] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
145] 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
146] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
147] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
148] 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.
149] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
150] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
151] 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
152] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
153] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
154] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
155] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
156] What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of doubt, and has clear conscience? [May the happiest days of the past be his saddest days of the future]
Adam Smith (1823 – 1790)
157] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
158] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
159] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
160] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
161] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
162] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
163] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
164] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
165] 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
166] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
167] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
168] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
169] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
170] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
171] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
172] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
173] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
174] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
175] 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.
176] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
177] 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.
178] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
179] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
180] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
181] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
182] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
183] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
184] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
185] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
186] 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.
187] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
188] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
189] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
190] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
191] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
192] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
193] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
194] 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.
195] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
196] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
197] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
198] 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.
199] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
200] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
201] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
202] 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.
203] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
204] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
205] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
206] 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
207] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
208] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
209] 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
210] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
211] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
212] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
213] 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.
214] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
215] Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred- this is the law External.
Budha ( 563?- 483? BC)
216] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
217] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
218] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
219] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
220] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
221] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
222] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
223] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
224] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
225] 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.
226] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
227] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
228] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
229] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
230] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
231] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
232] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
233] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
234] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
235] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
236] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
237] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
238] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
239] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
240] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
241] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
242] 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.
243] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
244] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
245] 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
246] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
247] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
248] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
249] 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)
250] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
251] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
252] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
253] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
254] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
255] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
256] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
257] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
258] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
259] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
260] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
261] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
262] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
263] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
264] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
265] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
266] 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)
267] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
268] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
269] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
270] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
271] 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)
272] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
273] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
274] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
275] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
276] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
277] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
278] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
279] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
280] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
281] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
282] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
283] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
284] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
285] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
286] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
287] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
288] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
289] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
290] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
291] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
292] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
293] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
294] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
295] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
296] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
297] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
298] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
299] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
300] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
301] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
302] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
303] 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.
304] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
305] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
306] Commonsense is not so common.
307] 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
308] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
309] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
310] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
311] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
312] 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
313] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
314] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
315] 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.
316] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
317] 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.
318] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
319] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
320] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
321] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
322] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
323] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
324] 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.
325] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
326] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
327] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
328] 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
329] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
330] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
331] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
332] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
333] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
334] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
335] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
336] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
337] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
338] 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.
339] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
340] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
341] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
342] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
343] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
344] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
345] 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.
346] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
347] 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.
348] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
349] 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.
350] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
351] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
352] 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
353] 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.
354] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
355] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
356] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
357] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
358] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
359] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
360] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
361] 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)
362] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
363] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
364] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
365] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
366] 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
367] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
368] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
369] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
370] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
371] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
372] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
373] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
374] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
375] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
376] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
377] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
378] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
379] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
380] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
381] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
382] 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.
383] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
384] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
385] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
386] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
387] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
388] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
389] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
390] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
391] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
392] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
393] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
394] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
395] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
396] The lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Joseph Conrad
397] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
398] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
399] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
400] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
401] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
402] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
403] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
404] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
405] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
406] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
407] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
408] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
409] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
410] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
411] 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
412] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
413] 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.
414] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
415] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
416] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
417] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
418] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
419] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
420] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
421] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
422] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
423] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
424] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
425] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
426] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
427] 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.
428] 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.
429] 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
430] 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
431] 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.
432] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
433] 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.
434] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
435] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
436] 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
437] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
438] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
439] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
440] 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.
441] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
442] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
443] 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)
444] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
445] 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
446] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
447] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
448] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
449] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
450] Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
451] 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)
452] 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.
453] 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.
454] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
455] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
456] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
457] 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.
458] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
459] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
460] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
461] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
462] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
463] 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.
464] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
465] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
466] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
467] 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.
468] A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
Jerome Lawrence
469] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
470] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
471] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
472] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
473] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
474] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
475] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
476] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
477] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
478] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
479] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
480] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
481] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
482] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
483] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
484] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
485] 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)
486] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
487] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
488] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
489] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
490] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
491] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
492] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
493] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
494] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
495] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
496] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
497] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
498] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
499] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
500] 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
501] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
502] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
503] 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.
504] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
505] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
506] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
507] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
508] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
509] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
510] 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
511] 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
512] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
513] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
514] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
515] 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.
516] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
517] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
518] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
519] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
520] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
521] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
522] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
523] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
524] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
525] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
526] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
527] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
528] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
529] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
530] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
531] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
532] 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.
533] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
534] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
535] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
536] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
537] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
538] 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.
539] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
540] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
541] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
542] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
543] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
544] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
545] 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
546] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
547] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
548] 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
549] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
550] 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.
551] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
552] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
553] 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
554] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
555] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
556] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
557] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
558] 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.
559] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
560] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
561] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
562] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
563] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
564] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
565] 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
566] 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.
567] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
568] 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.
569] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
570] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
571] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
572] 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.
573] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
574] 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
575] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
576] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
577] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
578] 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
579] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
580] 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
581] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
582] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
583] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
584] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
585] 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.
586] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
587] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
588] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
589] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
590] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
591] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
592] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
593] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
594] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
595] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
596] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
597] 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.
598] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
599] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
600] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.