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1] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
2] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
3] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
4] 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.
5] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
6] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
7] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
8] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
9] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
10] 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
11] Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker.
12] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – R.H. Tawney.
13] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
14] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
15] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
16] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
17] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
18] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
19] 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.
20] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
21] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
22] My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H.L. Mencken.
23] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
24] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
25] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
26] Bravery is being the only one who knows you’ve afraid.
Franklin. P. Jones
27] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
28] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
29] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
30] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
31] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
32] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
33] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
34] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
35] 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
36] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
37] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
38] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
39] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
40] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
41] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
42] Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler.
43] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
44] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
45] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
46] Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang.
47] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
48] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
49] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
50] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
51] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
52] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
53] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
54] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
55] In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw.
56] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
57] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
58] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
59] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
60] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
61] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
62] 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.
63] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
64] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
65] It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain.
66] 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.
67] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
68] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
69] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
70] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
71] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
72] The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country makes its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.
Joseph Statin
73] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
74] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
75] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
76] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
77] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
78] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
79] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
80] Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
81] The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates (470? – 399 BC)
82] Commonsense is not so common.
83] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
84] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
85] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
86] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
87] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
88] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
89] 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
90] 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.
91] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
92] 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
93] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
94] When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire.
95] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
96] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
97] 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.
98] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
99] 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)
100] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
101] 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
102] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
103] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
104] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
105] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
106] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
107] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
108] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
109] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
110] 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
111] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
112] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
113] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
114] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
115] 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
116] A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if your present sufficient evidence to show your don’t need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow.
117] 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
118] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
119] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
120] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
121] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
122] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
123] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
124] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
125] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
126] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
127] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
128] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
129] Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Robert Zend
130] When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
131] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
132] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
133] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
134] Many people’s tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60".
Nicholas Murray Butler
135] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
136] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
137] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
138] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
139] 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)
140] 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
141] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
142] 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.
143] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
144] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
145] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
146] 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
147] 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
148] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
149] I am afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White
150] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
151] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
152] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
153] The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw.J. Lec
154] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
155] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
156] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
157] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
158] 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.
159] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
160] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
161] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
162] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
163] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
164] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
165] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
166] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
167] 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)
168] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
169] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
170] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
171] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
172] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
173] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
174] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
175] 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.
176] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
177] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
178] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
179] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
180] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
181] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
182] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
183] 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.
184] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
185] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
186] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
187] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
188] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
189] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
190] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
191] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
192] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen.
193] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
194] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
195] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
196] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
197] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
198] 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
199] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
200] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
201] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
202] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
203] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
204] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
205] The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
John Flavel
206] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
207] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
208] 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.
209] Advertising is the trial principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry fielding (1707 – 1754)
210] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
211] 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)
212] 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).
213] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
214] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
215] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
216] 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
217] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
218] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
219] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
220] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
221] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
222] 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.
223] 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
224] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
225] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
226] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
227] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
228] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
229] Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696).
230] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
231] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
232] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
233] 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.
234] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
235] 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
236] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
237] A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole france.
238] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
239] Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
W. I. E. Gates
240] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Thomas Mann.
241] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
242] 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.
243] 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
244] 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.
245] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
246] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
247] I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
248] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
249] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
250] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
251] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
252] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
253] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
254] 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
255] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
256] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
257] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
258] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
259] 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)
260] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
261] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
262] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
263] 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.
264] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
265] 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.
266] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
267] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
268] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
269] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
270] 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.
271] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
272] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
273] 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.
274] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
275] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
276] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
277] A conclusion is a place where you got tired thinking.
Martin .H. Fisher
278] 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
279] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
280] 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
281] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
282] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
283] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
284] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
285] If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE
286] 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.
287] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
288] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
289] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
290] 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.
291] There’s no possibilility of being witty without a little ill- nature.
Richard Brinsley Sherivan(1751-1816)
292] 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
293] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
294] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
295] We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker.
296] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
297] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
298] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
299] 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
300] 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
301] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
302] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
303] 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
304] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
305] 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
306] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
307] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
308] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
309] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
310] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
311] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
312] The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
R.H. Tawney
313] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
314] Research is to see what every body else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent – Gyorgyi.
315] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
316] 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.
317] 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.
318] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
319] 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
320] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
321] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
322] 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
323] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
324] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
325] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
326] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
327] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
328] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
329] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
330] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
331] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
332] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
333] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
334] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
335] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
336] 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)
337] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
338] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
339] 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)
340] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
341] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
342] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
343] 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.
344] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
345] 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).
346] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
347] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
348] People who bite the hand that feeds them usually licks the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
349] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
350] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
351] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
352] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
353] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
354] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
355] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
356] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
357] If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Betrand Russel.
358] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
359] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
360] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
361] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
362] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
363] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
364] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
365] 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]
366] By belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates.
367] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
368] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
369] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
370] 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.
371] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
372] Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
373] I respect faith but faith in what gets you an education.
Wilson Minzner.
374] The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned… our hymns were loaded with arrogance – Self- congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, wha
Robert Heincein
375] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
376] 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.
377] Where opinion does not exist, the status quo becomes stereo, typed, and all originality, even the most necessary, is discouraged.
Bertrand Russel.
378] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
379] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
380] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
381] Retired is being tired twice I have thought First tired of working. Then tired of not.
Richard.
382] 505. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
383] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
384] 334. Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible, reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born.
385] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
386] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
387] 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
388] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
389] To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is an impossible as it is to live without being born.
A.P. Gouthey.
390] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
391] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
392] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
393] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
394] A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it.
395] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
396] Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington.
397] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
398] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
399] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
400] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
401] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
402] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
403] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
404] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
405] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
406] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
407] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
408] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
409] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
410] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
411] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
412] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
413] 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)
414] 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.”
415] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
416] 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.
417] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
418] Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far, within his limits. He possesses power of various sort
William James.
419] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
420] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
421] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
422] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
423] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
424] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
425] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
426] Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein.
427] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
428] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
429] 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.
430] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
431] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
432] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
433] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
434] 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
435] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
436] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
437] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
438] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
439] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
440] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
441] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
442] 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.
443] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
444] 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.
445] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
446] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
447] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
448] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
449] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
450] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
451] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
452] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
453] 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.
454] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
455] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
456] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
457] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
458] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
459] If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability
Henry Ford
460] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
461] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
462] Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace (65 – 8 BC)
463] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
464] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
465] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
466] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
467] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
468] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
469] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
470] 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.
471] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
472] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
473] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
474] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
475] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
476] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
477] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
478] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
479] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
480] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
481] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
482] 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
483] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
484] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
485] 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
486] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
487] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
488] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
489] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
490] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
491] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
492] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
493] An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H.L. Mencken.
494] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
495] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
496] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
497] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
498] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
499] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
500] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
501] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
502] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
503] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
504] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
505] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
506] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
507] Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert .S. Lynd.
508] 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.
509] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
510] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
511] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
512] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
513] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
514] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
515] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
516] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
517] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
518] 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)
519] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
520] It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people of you have none of your own.
Sir Herbert Samuel
521] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
522] 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)
523] 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.
524] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
525] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
526] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
527] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
528] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
529] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
530] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
531] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
532] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
533] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
534] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
535] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
536] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
537] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
538] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
539] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
540] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
541] 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
542] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
543] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
544] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
545] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
546] Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to the society.
Charles Gow.
547] He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pars himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
548] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
549] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
550] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
551] 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.
552] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
553] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
554] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
555] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
556] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
557] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
558] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
559] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
560] 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.
561] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
562] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
563] 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
564] 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)
565] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
566] Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
567] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
568] Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Socrates.
569] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
570] Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates love.
Lao – tzu (604 – 531 BC)
571] 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)
572] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
573] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
574] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
575] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
576] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
577] It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Havelock Ellis.
578] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
579] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
580] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
581] What troubles the poor is the money they can’t get, and what troubles the rich is the money they can’t keep.
582] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
583] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
584] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
585] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
586] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
587] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
588] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
589] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
590] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
591] 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.
592] May be this world is another planet’s Hell
Aldous Huxley.
593] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
594] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
595] 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)
596] 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).
597] 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.
598] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
599] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
600] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.