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1] 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.
2] 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
3] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
4] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
5] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
6] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
7] 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.
8] A new question has risen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living… No sensible answer can be given to the question… because the question does not make any sense.
Enrich Fromm.
9] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
10] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
11] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
12] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
13] 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
14] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
15] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
16] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
17] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
18] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
19] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
20] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
21] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
22] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
23] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
24] The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the far of socialism has compelled capitalism to in crease equality.
Will and Ariel Durant.
25] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
26] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
27] It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
28] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
29] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
30] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
31] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
32] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
33] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
34] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
35] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
36] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
37] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
38] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
39] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
40] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
41] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
42] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
43] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
44] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
45] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
46] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
47] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
48] 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
49] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
50] 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.
51] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
52] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
53] 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.
54] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
55] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
56] 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
57] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
58] Commonsense is not so common.
59] 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.
60] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
61] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
62] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
63] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
64] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
65] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
66] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
67] 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
68] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
69] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
70] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
71] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
72] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
73] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
74] 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)
75] 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.
76] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
77] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
78] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
79] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
80] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
81] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
82] 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
83] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
84] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
85] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
86] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
87] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
88] 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.
89] 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.
90] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
91] 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)
92] The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butter.
93] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
94] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
95] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
96] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
97] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
98] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
99] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
100] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
101] 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
102] 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
103] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
104] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
105] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
106] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
107] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
108] 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
109] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
110] 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
111] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
112] 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
113] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
114] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
115] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
116] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
117] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
118] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
119] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
120] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
121] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
122] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
123] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
124] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
125] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
126] 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.
127] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
128] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
129] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
130] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
131] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
132] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
133] 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)
134] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
135] 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
136] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
137] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
138] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
139] 388. Leisure is the most Challenging responsibility a man be offered.
Dr.William Russel.
140] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
141] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
142] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
143] 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.
144] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
145] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
146] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
147] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
148] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
149] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
150] The only problems money can solve are money problems.
151] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
152] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
153] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
154] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
155] 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
156] 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
157] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
158] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
159] 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)
160] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
161] 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
162] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
163] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
164] Great Minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
165] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
166] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
167] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
168] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
169] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
170] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
171] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
172] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
173] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
174] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
175] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
176] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
177] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
178] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
179] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
180] Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
181] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
182] 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.
183] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
184] Passions are vices and virtues in their highest powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832).
185] Committee – a group of unfit, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. [ * To get something done, a committee should consists of no more than three men, two of them absent. * Committees have become so important now a days that sub committees have
Stewart Harrol
186] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
187] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
188] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
189] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
190] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
191] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
192] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
193] Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Proverb.
194] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
195] 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
196] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
197] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
198] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
199] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
200] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
201] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
202] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
203] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
204] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
205] The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
206] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
207] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
208] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
209] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
210] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
211] 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
212] 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
213] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
214] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
215] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
216] 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)
217] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
218] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
219] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
220] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
221] 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)
222] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
223] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
224] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
225] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
226] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
227] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
228] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
229] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
230] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
231] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
232] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
233] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
234] 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)
235] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
236] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
237] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
238] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
239] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
240] 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)
241] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
242] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
243] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
244] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ….it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A. Overstreet.
245] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
246] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
247] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
248] 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).
249] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
250] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
251] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
252] 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
253] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
254] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
255] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
256] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
257] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
258] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
259] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
260] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
261] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
262] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
263] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
264] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
265] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
266] 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.
267] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
268] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
269] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
270] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
271] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
272] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
273] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
274] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
275] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
276] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
277] 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
278] 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
279] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
280] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
281] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
282] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
283] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
284] 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.
285] 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.
286] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
287] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
288] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
289] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
290] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
291] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
292] No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of Patriotism.
Preserved Smith.
293] 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
294] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
295] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
296] 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.
297] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
298] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
299] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
300] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
301] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
302] 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.
303] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
304] 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
305] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
306] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
307] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
308] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
309] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
310] 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.
311] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
312] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
313] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
314] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
315] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
316] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
317] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
318] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
319] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
320] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
321] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
322] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
323] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
324] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
325] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
326] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
327] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
328] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
329] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
330] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
331] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
332] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
333] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
334] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
335] When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing is life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde.
336] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
337] 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.
338] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
339] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
340] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
341] 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
342] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
343] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
344] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
345] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
346] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
347] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
348] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
349] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
350] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
351] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
352] 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
353] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
354] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
355] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
356] 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
357] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).
358] 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
359] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
360] 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
361] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
362] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
363] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
364] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
365] 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
366] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
367] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
368] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
369] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
370] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
371] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
372] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
373] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
374] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
375] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
376] 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
377] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
378] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
379] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
380] 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)
381] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
382] 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.
383] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
384] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
385] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
386] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
387] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
388] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
389] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
390] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
391] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
392] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
393] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
394] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
395] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
396] 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
397] 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)
398] 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
399] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
400] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
401] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
402] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
403] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
404] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
405] 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.
406] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
407] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
408] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
409] 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.
410] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
411] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
412] 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
413] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
414] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
415] 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.
416] 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
417] 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
418] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
419] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
420] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
421] 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.
422] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
423] 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
424] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
425] 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.
426] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
427] 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.
428] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
429] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
430] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
431] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
432] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
433] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
434] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
435] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
436] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
437] 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.
438] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
439] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
440] 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)
441] 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).
442] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
443] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
444] 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.
445] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
446] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
447] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
448] 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.
449] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
450] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
451] Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. [And do it now ! There may be a law against it tomorrow]
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
452] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
453] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
454] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
455] 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.
456] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
457] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
458] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
459] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
460] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
461] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
462] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
463] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
464] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
465] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
466] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
467] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
468] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
469] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
470] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
471] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
472] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
473] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
474] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
475] 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)
476] 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)
477] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
478] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
479] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
480] 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.
481] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
482] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
483] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
484] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
485] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
486] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
487] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
488] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
489] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
490] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
491] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
492] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
493] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
494] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
495] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
496] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
497] 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.
498] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
499] 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
500] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
501] 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.
502] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
503] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
504] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
505] 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.
506] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
507] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
508] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
509] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
510] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
511] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
512] 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.
513] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
514] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
515] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
516] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
517] 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.
518] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
519] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
520] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
521] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
522] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
523] 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.
524] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
525] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
526] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
527] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
528] 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)
529] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
530] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
531] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
532] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
533] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
534] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
535] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
536] 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.
537] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
538] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
539] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
540] 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
541] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
542] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
543] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
544] 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.
545] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
546] Committee – a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Miltan Berle
547] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
548] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
549] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
550] 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.
551] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
552] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
553] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
554] 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
555] 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.
556] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
557] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
558] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
559] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
560] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
561] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
562] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
563] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
564] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
565] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
566] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
567] 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
568] An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan.
569] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
570] 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
571] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
572] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
573] 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
574] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
575] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
576] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
577] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
578] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
579] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
580] 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]
581] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
582] 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
583] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
584] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
585] 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.
586] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
587] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
588] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
589] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
590] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
591] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
592] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
593] A man has only one way of being immortal on this earth : he has to forget he is mortal
Jean Giraudoux.
594] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
595] The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North White head.
596] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
597] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
598] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
599] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
600] 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.”