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1] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
2] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
3] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
4] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
5] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
6] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
7] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
8] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
9] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
10] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
11] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
12] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
13] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
14] 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.
15] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
16] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
17] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
18] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
19] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
20] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
21] Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson (1743- 1826)
22] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
23] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
24] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
25] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
26] 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)
27] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
28] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
29] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
30] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
31] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
32] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
33] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
34] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
35] Liberty is being free from the things are don’t like in order to be Slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn.
36] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
37] Can’t a critic give his opinion of an omlette without being asked to lay an egg ?
Clayton Rawson
38] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
39] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
40] 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
41] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
42] The elimination of war should be the major task of social education.
Konrad Lorenz
43] Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus (484 – 432 BC)
44] Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
45] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
46] One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare.
47] Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White.
48] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
49] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
50] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
51] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
52] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
53] 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.
54] 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.
55] People fall in love, but they have to climb out.
56] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
57] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
58] 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)
59] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
60] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
61] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
62] 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.
63] A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mancroft.
64] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
65] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
66] 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]
67] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
68] 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.
69] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
70] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
71] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
72] From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus ( c.1st Century BC)
73] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
Alexander. A. Boygomoletz.
74] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
75] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
76] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
77] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
78] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
79] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
80] Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements
George Bernard Shaw
81] The family is the nuclear of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant.
82] Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert .G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)
83] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
84] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
85] 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.
86] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
87] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
88] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
89] There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid (43? BC – AD 18)
90] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
91] 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.”
92] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
93] 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
94] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
95] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
96] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
97] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
98] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
99] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
100] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
101] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
102] 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
103] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
104] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
105] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
106] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
107] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
108] 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.
109] Reason and Judgement are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus (55AD 130)
110] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
111] To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e.e. Cummings.
112] 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.
113] Commonsense is not so common.
114] 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)
115] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
116] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
117] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
118] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
119] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
120] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
121] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
122] 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.
123] 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.
124] It matters of principles, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Thomas Jefferson.
125] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
126] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
127] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
128] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
129] Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Sir Herbert Samuel
130] 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)
131] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
132] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
133] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
134] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
135] Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
136] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
137] All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca ( 4BC- Ad 65)
138] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
139] 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
140] Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
141] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
142] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
143] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
144] 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)
145] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
146] 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
147] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
148] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
149] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
150] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
151] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
152] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
153] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
154] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
155] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
156] You can observe a lot just by watching
Yogi Berra
157] 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
158] Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard.
159] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
160] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
161] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
162] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
163] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
164] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
165] 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.
166] Personality I’m always ready to learn, although do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill.
167] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
168] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
169] The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
- Martin Esslin.
170] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
171] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
172] 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.
173] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
174] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
175] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
176] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
177] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
178] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
179] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
180] I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell- you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain.
181] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
182] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
183] 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
184] 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
185] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
186] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
187] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
188] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
189] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
190] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
191] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
192] 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
193] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
194] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
195] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
196] Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittevio Alfieri ( 1749 – 1803
197] A cinic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
Edgar .A. Shoaff
198] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
199] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
200] It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it .
Seneca
201] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
202] There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence. J. Peter
203] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
204] To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves
Virginia Woolf
205] I keep six honest serving men/. They taught me all I kew/. Their names are What and Why and When/ And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
206] 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.
207] 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).
208] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
209] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
210] 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)
211] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
212] An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert camus.
213] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
214] Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally distructive.
Theodore Roosevelt.
215] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
216] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
217] Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Francis Bacen (1561 – 1626)
218] 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)
219] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
220] All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
221] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
222] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
223] And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
224] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
225] 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
226] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
227] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
228] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
229] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
230] I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert frost.
231] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha
232] The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire (1694 -1778)
233] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
234] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
235] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
236] Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquie. (1689 – 1799)
237] 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.
238] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
239] However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680)
240] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
241] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
242] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
243] Commonsense is not so common.
244] 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.
245] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
246] -And it’s the only game that is never called off on account of darkness.
247] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
248] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
249] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
250] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
251] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
252] 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
253] The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Wal Pole (1707 – 1797)
254] The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
255] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
256] Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Leven Stein
257] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
258] No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870
259] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
260] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
261] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
262] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
263] Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens.
264] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
265] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
266] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
267] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
268] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
269] Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips.
270] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
271] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
272] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
273] 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.
274] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
275] 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
276] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
277] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
278] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
279] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
280] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
281] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
282] A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
283] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
284] Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
285] There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
286] 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
287] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
288] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
289] Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins.
290] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
291] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
292] 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
293] Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are not happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown.
294] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
295] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
296] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
297] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
298] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
299] Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C.W. Ceram.
300] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
301] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
302] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
303] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
304] 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)
305] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
306] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
307] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
308] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
309] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
310] Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
311] 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
312] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
313] 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.
314] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
315] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
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] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
318] 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)
319] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
320] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
321] Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
322] Scientists are trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn’t be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing. …
323] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
324] Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
Bernard .M. Baruch
325] 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.
326] 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
327] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
328] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
329] The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop.W.C. Magee.
330] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
331] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
332] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
333] To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayans.
334] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
335] 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
336] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
337] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
338] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
339] 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.
340] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
341] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
342] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
343] The average man, who does not know what to do with his life wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France.
344] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
345] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
346] 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).
347] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
348] Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
349] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
350] 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
351] 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
352] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
353] Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams.
354] 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.
355] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
356] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
357] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
358] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
359] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
360] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
361] The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde.
362] The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
George Bernard Shaw.
363] Man is a political animal.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
364] Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friendrich Nietzsche
365] Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a curr
Robert. F. Kennedy.
366] The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are night sometimes
Winston Churchill.
367] The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost.
368] Leaders have significant role in creating the state of mind that is society.
John Gardner
369] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
370] In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they `come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
371] No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Jean Paul Richter ( 1763 – 1829)
372] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
373] 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
374] Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce.
375] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
376] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
377] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
378] 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
379] If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106- 43 BC
380] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
381] The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow.
382] 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.
383] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
384] The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer.
385] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
386] To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill… it is infact, the consuming illness of our time.
H.A . Overstreet.
387] Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821)
388] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
389] 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
390] People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.
Somerset Maugham.
391] Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge.
392] Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions, never your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Earl of Mans field.
393] 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.
394] Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
Mark Twain.
395] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
396] 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)
397] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
398] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
399] Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it.
Cecil Palmer
400] 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)
401] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
402] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
403] Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
404] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
405] Never find your delight in another’s misfortune
Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC)
406] Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
407] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
408] Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde.
409] 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
410] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
411] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
412] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
413] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
414] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
415] The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln.
416] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
417] Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success.
Maurice Valency.
418] 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)
419] Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore.
420] No one can enjoy freedom unless he is willing to surrender some part of it.
421] A good scare is worth move to a man than good advice.
Ed Have.
422] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
423] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
424] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
425] If you don’t team to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old
Ed How.
426] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
427] There are two kinds of people in one’s life – People whom one keeps waiting – and the people for whom one waits.
S.N. Behrman.
428] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
429] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
430] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
431] Think twice before you speak – and you’ll find every one talking about something else.
Francis Rodman.
432] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
433] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
434] There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says. “Yes”, you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx.
435] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
436] 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
437] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
438] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
439] Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
William .W. Watt
440] Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than you own.
Edger A shoaff.
441] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
442] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
443] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
444] Pessimist : One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde.
445] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
446] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
447] The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russel Lowell. (1819 - 1891)
448] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
449] The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche. (1844 – 1900).
450] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
451] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
452] 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
453] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
454] An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwinght. D. Eisenhower.
455] Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough
Benjansin Franklin
456] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
457] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
458] Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
459] It fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Antole France
460] Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann. W. Von Goethe
461] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
462] 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.
463] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
464] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
465] 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.
466] 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
467] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
468] I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Willian. E .Henley
469] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire [ Francois Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778]
470] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
471] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
472] The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler.
473] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
474] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
475] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke ( 1749 – 1797)
476] 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.”
477] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
478] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
479] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
480] Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle ( 384- 322BC)
481] 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
482] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
483] A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man’s a man only as long as he can.
Moms Mabley.
484] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
485] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
486] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
487] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
488] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
489] Wonder father than the doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshus Heschel.
490] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
491] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
492] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
493] I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 -1642)
494] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
495] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
496] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
497] Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but ruinous.
Alexander I Solzhewitsyn
498] 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
499] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
500] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
501] Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt.
502] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
503] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
504] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
505] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
506] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
507] A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend in doing nothing.
George Barnard Shaw.
508] If a man runs after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a play- boy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a ne’er-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he’s a paras
Vic Oliver.
509] A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
510] Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extra- ordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John Gardner.
511] 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
512] The value of an idea has nothing what so ever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Oscar Wilde.
513] Every great man now a days has his deciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. [Some men have been immortalized in biography, while others have been immoralized]
Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900)
514] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
515] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
516] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
517] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
518] No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes.
519] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
520] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
521] 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.
522] 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
523] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
524] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
525] 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
526] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
527] 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.
528] Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
529] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
530] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
531] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
532] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
533] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
534] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
535] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
536] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
537] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
538] [speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.]
539] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
540] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
541] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
542] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
543] Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence . C. Coughlin
544] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
545] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
546] Society attacks early when The individual is helpless.
B.F. Skinner
547] 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
548] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
549] 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.
550] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
551] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
552] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
553] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
554] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
555] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
556] 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.
557] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
558] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
559] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
560] 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.
561] 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
562] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
563] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
564] There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
O.S. Marden.
565] The only things we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Rosevelt.
566] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
567] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
568] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
569] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
570] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
571] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
572] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
573] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
574] 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
575] Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Mark Twain.
576] 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.
577] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
578] 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
579] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
580] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
581] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
582] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
583] The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus (55? – 130?
584] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
585] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
586] 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)
587] 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
588] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
589] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
590] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
591] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
592] If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation not the next.
Woodrow Wilson
593] 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
594] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
595] 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
596] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
597] The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
598] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
599] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
600] 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.