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1] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
2] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
3] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
4] 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)
5] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
6] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
7] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
8] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
9] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
10] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
11] 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)
12] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
13] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
14] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
15] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
16] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
17] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
18] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
19] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
20] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
21] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
22] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
23] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
24] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
25] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
26] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
27] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
28] 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)
29] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
30] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
31] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
32] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
33] 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.
34] 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.
35] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
36] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
37] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
38] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
39] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
40] 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
41] 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
42] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
43] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
44] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
45] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
46] 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.
47] 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.
48] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
49] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
50] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
51] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
52] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
53] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
54] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
55] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
56] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
57] 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.
58] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
59] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
60] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
61] 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
62] 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
63] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
64] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
65] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
66] 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.
67] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
68] 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
69] 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
70] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
71] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
72] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
73] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
74] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
75] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
76] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
77] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
78] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
79] 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
80] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
81] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
82] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
83] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
84] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
85] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
86] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
87] 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
88] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
89] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
90] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
91] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
92] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
93] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
94] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
95] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
96] 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
97] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
98] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
99] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
100] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
101] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
102] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
103] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
104] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
105] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
106] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
107] 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)
108] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
109] 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.
110] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
111] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
112] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
113] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
114] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
115] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
116] 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
117] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
118] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
119] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
120] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
121] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
122] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
123] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
124] 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)
125] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
126] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
127] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
128] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
129] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
130] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
131] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
132] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
133] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
134] 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.
135] 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
136] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
137] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
138] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
139] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
140] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
141] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
142] 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.
143] 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.
144] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
145] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
146] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
147] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
148] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
149] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
150] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
151] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
152] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
153] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
154] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
155] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
156] 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)
157] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
158] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
159] 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
160] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
161] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
162] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
163] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
164] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
165] 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.
166] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
167] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
168] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
169] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
170] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
171] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
172] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
173] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
174] 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.
175] 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
176] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
177] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
178] 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.
179] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
180] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
181] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
182] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
183] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
184] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
185] 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.
186] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
187] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
188] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
189] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
190] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
191] 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)
192] 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
193] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
194] 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.
195] 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.
196] 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.
197] 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
198] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
199] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
200] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
201] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
202] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
203] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
204] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
205] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
206] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
207] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
208] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
209] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
210] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
211] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
212] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
213] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
214] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
215] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
216] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
217] 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)
218] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
219] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
220] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
221] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
222] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
223] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
224] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
225] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
226] He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.]
Karl Ven Knebel [ 1784 – 1834]
227] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
228] 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
229] 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.
230] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
231] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
232] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
233] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
234] 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.
235] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
236] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
237] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
238] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
239] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
240] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
241] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
242] 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.
243] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
244] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
245] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
246] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
247] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
248] 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)
249] 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.
250] 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.
251] 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
252] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
253] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
254] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
255] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
256] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
257] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
258] 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)
259] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
260] 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
261] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
262] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
263] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
264] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
265] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
266] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
267] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
268] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
269] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
270] 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.
271] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
272] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
273] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
274] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
275] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
276] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
277] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
278] 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
279] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
280] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
281] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
282] 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
283] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
284] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
285] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
286] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
287] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
288] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
289] 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).
290] 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
291] 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)
292] 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
293] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
294] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
295] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
296] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
297] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
298] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
299] 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
300] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
301] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
302] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
303] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
304] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
305] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
306] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
307] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
308] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
309] 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.
310] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
311] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
312] 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.
313] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
314] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
315] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
316] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
317] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
318] 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.
319] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
320] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
321] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
322] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
323] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
324] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
325] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
326] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
327] 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.
328] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
329] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
330] 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
331] 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.
332] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
333] 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.
334] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
335] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
336] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
337] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
338] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
339] 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
340] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
341] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
342] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
343] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
344] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
345] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
346] 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.
347] 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.
348] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
349] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
350] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
351] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
352] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
353] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
354] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
355] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
356] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
357] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
358] 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
359] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
360] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
361] 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.
362] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
363] 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
364] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
365] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
366] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
367] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
368] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
369] 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.
370] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
371] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
372] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
373] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
374] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
375] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
376] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
377] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
378] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
379] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
380] 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.
381] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
382] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
383] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
384] 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.
385] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
386] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
387] 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.
388] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
389] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
390] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
391] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
392] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
393] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
394] 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.
395] 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
396] 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)
397] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
398] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
399] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
400] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
401] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
402] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
403] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
404] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
405] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
406] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
407] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
408] 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
409] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
410] 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
411] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
412] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
413] 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)
414] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
415] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
416] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
417] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
418] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
419] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
420] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
421] 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)
422] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
423] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
424] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
425] 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
426] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
427] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
428] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
429] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
430] 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
431] 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
432] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
433] 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.
434] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
435] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
436] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
437] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
438] 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)
439] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
440] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
441] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
442] 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.
443] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
444] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
445] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
446] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
447] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
448] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
449] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
450] 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
451] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
452] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
453] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
454] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
455] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
456] 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
457] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
458] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
459] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
460] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
461] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
462] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
463] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
464] 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.
465] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
466] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
467] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
468] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
469] 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.
470] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
471] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
472] 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
473] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
474] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
475] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
476] 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 .
477] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
478] 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.
479] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
480] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
481] Surely God would not have created such a being a man to exist only for a day ! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1505)
482] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
483] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
484] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
485] 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
486] 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
487] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
488] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
489] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
490] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
491] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
492] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
493] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
494] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
495] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
496] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
497] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
498] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
499] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
500] Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin- skinned people. [There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.]
Richard Armour
501] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
502] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
503] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
504] 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.
505] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
506] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
507] 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.”
508] 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.
509] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
510] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
511] 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
512] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
513] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
514] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
515] 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.
516] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
517] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
518] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
519] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
520] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
521] 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.
522] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
523] 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.
524] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
525] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
526] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
527] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
528] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
529] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
530] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
531] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
532] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
533] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
534] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
535] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
536] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
537] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
538] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
539] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
540] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
541] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
542] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
543] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
544] 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)
545] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
546] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
547] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
548] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
549] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
550] Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be staves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
551] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
552] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
553] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
554] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
555] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
556] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
557] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
558] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
559] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
560] 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
561] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
562] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
563] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
564] 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.
565] 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
566] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
567] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
568] 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
569] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
570] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
571] 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).
572] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
573] 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
574] 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)
575] Commonsense is not so common.
576] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
577] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
578] 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.
579] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
580] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information up on it.
Samuel Johnson (1709 -1784)
581] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
582] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
583] Despite my thirty years of research in to the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer….. The great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want ?
Sigmund Freud.
584] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
585] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
586] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
587] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
588] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
589] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
590] 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.
591] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
592] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
593] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
594] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
595] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
596] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
597] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
598] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
599] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
600] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.