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1] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
2] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
3] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
4] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
5] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
6] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
7] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
8] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
9] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
10] 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)
11] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
12] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
13] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
14] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
15] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
16] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
17] 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.”
18] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
19] 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.
20] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
21] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
22] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
23] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
24] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
25] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
26] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
27] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
28] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
29] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
30] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
31] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
32] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
33] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
34] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
35] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
36] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
37] 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)
38] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
39] 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.
40] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
41] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
42] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
43] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
44] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
45] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
46] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
47] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
48] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
49] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
50] 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
51] 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.
52] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
53] 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.
54] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
55] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
56] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
57] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
58] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
59] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
60] 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.
61] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
62] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
63] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
64] 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.
65] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
66] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
67] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
68] 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
69] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
70] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
71] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
72] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
73] 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
74] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
75] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
76] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
77] Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower class. [Socialism is bureaucracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.]
Oswald spengler
78] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
79] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
80] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
81] 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.
82] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
83] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
84] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
85] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
86] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
87] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
88] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
89] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
90] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
91] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
92] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
93] 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
94] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
95] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
96] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
97] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
98] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
99] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
100] 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.
101] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
102] 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)
103] 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)
104] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
105] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
106] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
107] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
108] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
109] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
110] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
111] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
112] 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
113] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
114] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
115] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
116] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
117] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
118] 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.
119] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
120] 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.
121] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
122] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
123] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
124] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
125] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
126] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
127] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
128] 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.
129] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
130] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
131] 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
132] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
133] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
134] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
135] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
136] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
137] 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.
138] 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)
139] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
140] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
141] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
142] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
143] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
144] For of course the true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
P.W. Bridgman
145] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
146] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
147] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
148] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
149] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
150] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
151] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
152] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
153] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
154] 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.
155] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
156] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
157] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
158] 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 .
159] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
160] 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)
161] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
162] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
163] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
164] 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.
165] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
166] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
167] 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).
168] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
169] 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)
170] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
171] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
172] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
173] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
174] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
175] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
176] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
177] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
178] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
179] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
180] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
181] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
182] Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne.
183] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
184] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
185] 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)
186] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
187] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
188] 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
189] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
190] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
191] 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
192] 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
193] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
194] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
195] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
196] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
197] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
198] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
199] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
200] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
201] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
202] 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
203] 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.
204] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
205] 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)
206] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
207] 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
208] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
209] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
210] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
211] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
212] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
213] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
214] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
215] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
216] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
217] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
218] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
219] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
220] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
221] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
222] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
223] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
224] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
225] 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
226] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
227] 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
228] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
229] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
230] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
231] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
232] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
233] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
234] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
235] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
236] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
237] 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
238] 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
239] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
240] 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.
241] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
242] 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
243] 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.
244] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
245] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
246] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
247] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
248] 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
249] 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
250] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
251] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
252] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
253] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
254] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
255] 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.
256] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
257] 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.”
258] 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.
259] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
260] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
261] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
262] 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
263] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
264] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
265] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
266] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
267] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
268] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
269] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
270] 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
271] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
272] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
273] 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.
274] 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
275] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
276] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
277] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
278] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
279] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
280] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
281] 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.
282] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
283] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
284] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
285] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
286] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
287] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
288] 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.
289] 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)
290] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
291] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
292] 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.
293] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
294] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
295] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
296] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
297] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
298] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
299] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
300] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
301] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
302] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
303] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
304] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
305] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
306] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
307] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
308] The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulas (1800-1859)
309] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
310] 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.
311] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
312] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
313] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
314] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
315] 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
316] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
317] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
318] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
319] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
320] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
321] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
322] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
323] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
324] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
325] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
326] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
327] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
328] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
329] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
330] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
331] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
332] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
333] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
334] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
335] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
336] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
337] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
338] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
339] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
340] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
341] 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
342] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
343] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
344] 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
345] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
346] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
347] 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.
348] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
349] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
350] 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.
351] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
352] 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
353] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
354] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
355] 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]
356] Life is a Progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784)
357] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
358] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
359] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
360] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
361] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
362] 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
363] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
364] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
365] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
366] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
367] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
368] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
369] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
370] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
371] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
372] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
373] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
374] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
375] 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.
376] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
377] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
378] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
379] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
380] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
381] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
382] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
383] 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
384] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
385] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
386] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
387] 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.
388] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
389] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
390] 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.
391] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
392] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
393] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
394] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
395] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
396] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
397] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
398] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
399] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
400] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
401] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
402] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
403] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
404] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
405] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
406] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
407] 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.
408] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
409] 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
410] 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.
411] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
412] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
413] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
414] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
415] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
416] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
417] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
418] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
419] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
420] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
421] 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
422] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
423] 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
424] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
425] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
426] What ever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dread fully like other people.
James Russel Lowell (1819 – 1801)
427] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
428] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
429] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
430] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
431] 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.
432] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
433] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
434] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
435] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
436] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
437] 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).
438] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
439] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
440] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
441] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
442] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
443] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
444] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
445] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
446] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
447] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
448] 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)
449] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
450] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
451] 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
452] 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)
453] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
454] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
455] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
456] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
457] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
458] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
459] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
460] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
461] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
462] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
463] A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twin.
464] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
465] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
466] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
467] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
468] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
469] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
470] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
471] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
472] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
473] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
474] 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.
475] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
476] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
477] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
478] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
479] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
480] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
481] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
482] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
483] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
484] 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.
485] 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
486] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
487] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
488] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
489] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
490] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
491] 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.
492] 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
493] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
494] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
495] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
496] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
497] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
498] 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
499] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
500] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
501] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
502] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
503] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
504] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
505] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
506] 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.
507] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
508] 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.
509] 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)
510] 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.
511] 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)
512] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
513] 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.
514] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
515] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
516] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
517] 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 .
518] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
519] Commonsense is not so common.
520] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
521] 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
522] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
523] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
524] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
525] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
526] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
527] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
528] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
529] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
530] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
531] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
532] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
533] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
534] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
535] 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.
536] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
537] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
538] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
539] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
540] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
541] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
542] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
543] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
544] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
545] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
546] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
547] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
548] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
549] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
550] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
551] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
552] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
553] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
554] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
555] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
556] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
557] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
558] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
559] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
560] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
561] 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.
562] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
563] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
564] 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
565] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
566] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
567] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
568] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
569] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
570] 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
571] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
572] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
573] 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
574] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
575] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
576] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
577] 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.
578] If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John . F. Kennedy.
579] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
580] 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
581] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
582] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
583] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
584] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
585] 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.
586] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
587] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
588] 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.
589] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
590] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
591] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
592] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
593] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
594] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
595] It is to the interest of mankind that there should be some one who is un conquered, some one against when fortune has no power.
Seneca
596] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
597] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
598] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
599] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
600] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.