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1] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
2] The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaare.
3] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
4] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
5] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
6] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
7] Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain.
8] Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer.
9] There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
10] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
11] When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard. W. Newton.
12] Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13] The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some.
Burton Hillis
14] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
15] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
16] Every man has three characters- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808 – 1890).
17] We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan.
18] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
19] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
20] If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Platonicus ( Ist century BC)
21] Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession a duty.
John. D. Rockefeller
22] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
23] 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.
24] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
25] 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)
26] To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus.
27] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
28] 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
29] 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.
30] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
31] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
32] 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
33] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
34] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
35] A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each one thinks he is getting the biggest piece.
36] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
37] 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.
38] The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
39] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
40] The most powerful factor in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. Arthur Thomson .
41] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
42] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
43] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
44] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
45] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
46] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
47] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
48] The secret source of humor itself is not joy sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
49] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
50] The whole life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace.
51] A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles. F. Kettering.
52] True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winstan Churchill.
53] Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
54] National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson.
55] Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
56] What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
Plato
57] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
58] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
59] 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
60] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
61] 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.
62] 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
63] 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
64] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
65] 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
66] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
67] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
68] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
69] Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
70] The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.
Confucius (551 – 479 BC)
71] Happiness is liking what you do as well as doing what you like.
72] Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel Le Unamuno.
73] Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
G.C.Lichtenberg( 1742 -1799)
74] A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris. L. Ernst.
75] 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
76] We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw.
77] Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
78] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
79] 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.
80] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
William Hazlitt
81] Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
George Bernard Shaw.
82] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
83] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
84] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
85] True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Queen Elizabeth II.
86] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
87] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
88] The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
89] Life is mostly forth and bubble, Two things stand like stone – Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
Adam. L. Gordon
90] 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.
91] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
92] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
93] Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em.
William Shakespeare.
94] An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist experts his might mares to.
95] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
96] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
97] To be like Christ is to be a Christian
William Penn (1644-1718)
98] The devil is a gentleman who never goes where he is not welcome.
John. A. Lincoln
99] 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)
100] 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
101] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
102] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
103] If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius (C 551 – 479 BC).
104] 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.
105] Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
106] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
107] 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)
108] The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
Mark Twain
109] An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
110] 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.
111] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
112] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
113] You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Dr. O.A. Battista.
114] When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer.
115] 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.
116] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
117] 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
118] A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
119] Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel.
120] Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley.
121] 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)
122] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
123] To like an individual because he’s black is just an insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
e. e. Cummings.
124] The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle(384 – 322BC)
125] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
126] Self trust is the essence of heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
127] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
128] No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Ed Howe.
129] All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
C.H. Parkhurst.
130] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
131] Ignorance of one’s ignorance is the greatest ignorance.
132] 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
133] 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.
134] Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiners to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
135] 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.
136] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
137] We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogres.
138] Don’t worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
The old Framer’s Almanac
139] Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Albert camus.
140] There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw.
141] An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb.
142] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
143] Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughar.
144] We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
145] We are all of us, more or less, the laves of
William Haz litt (1778 -1830).
146] What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Framklin .P. Jones
147] Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost.
148] What can a man do who doesn’t know what to do.
Milton Mayor.
149] The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment
Dorothy Nevill.
150] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
151] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
152] Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks.
153] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
154] Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mohandan Gandhi.
155] 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.
156] 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
157] Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay.
158] The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
159] 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
160] 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.
161] The ability to divorce one’s mind from one’s actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman.
162] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
163] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
164] Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Mathew Arnold ( 1822 – 1888)
165] 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.
166] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
167] 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
168] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
169] The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson.
170] The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
Issac D’ Israeli (1766 -1848)
171] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb.
172] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
173] Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan.
174] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
175] There is no meaning in life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm.
176] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
177] May you all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift ( 1667 – 1745)
178] Coward – one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose kitman.
179] 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
180] If at first you don’t succeed, try-try, again. Then quit there’s no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields.
181] 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
182] 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.
183] Christ believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russel.
184] What we call “Progress” is the exchange of on nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
185] 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)
186] To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas.
187] The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Team, Nathan
188] Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
189] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
190] 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.
191] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
192] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
193] 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.
194] Leadership is action, not position
Donald. H .Mc.Gannon.
195] Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
196] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
197] The walls of books around him, dense with the part, formed a kind of insulation against then present world and its disasters.[A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns it6s back on you and remains a friend].
Ross Macdonald
198] 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).
199] Wise men learns more from fools than fools from wise man.
Marcus Porcius (234 -149 BC)
200] God is the tangential point between zero and infinity
Alfred Jarry
201] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
202] A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richer (1763-11845)
203] It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Peter
204] He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
Senator Thomas . P. Gore.
205] 549. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow.
206] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
207] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
208] Immortality is hereditary – you can get it from four children.
Sam Levenson
209] 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
210] The hen is an egg’s way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
211] 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
212] There is nothing new under the sun. –
BIBLE
213] The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
214] 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.
215] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
216] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
217] 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.
218] Commonsense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772- 1834)
219] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
220] 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
221] It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein.
222] It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France.
223] I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.
John Ruskin
224] I had set limits to knowledge in order to make place for faith.
Jammanuel Kart (1724 -1804)
225] Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
226] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
227] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
228] Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw.
229] The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry.
230] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
231] One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
232] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
233] Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddam Spurgeon.
234] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
235] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
236] Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar wilde.
237] 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.
238] Today if you’re not confused you’re just not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
239] The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Horold Nicholson.
240] 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)
241] The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Daute Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
242] Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ciecero (106 – 43 B.C)
243] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
244] 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)
245] It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius (C.551 – 479 BC)
246] The nature of artistic attainment is psychologically in accessible to us.
Sigmund frud.
247] It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Johann. W. Von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
248] Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Euripides (484 – 406 BC)
249] A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustin (354 – 430)
250] A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
251] The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle (384 – 322BC)
252] 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.
253] Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison.
254] Nothing bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
255] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
256] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felix Cohem.
257] To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
258] 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.
259] 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
260] Perhaps we are wiser, les selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly
Joseph Wood Krutch
261] Let us train our minds to desire what the situations demands.
Sences (4 B.C – A.D 65)
262] The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself
Earnest Jones.
263] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
264] Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
265] I Quote only the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (1533- 1592)
266] The ideas gained by men before they are twenty five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James.
267] The devil can cite scriptures for his purpose.
Willian Shakespeare
268] I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert camus
269] This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in .
Richard. M. Nixon; Theodore Roosevelt.
270] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
271] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
272] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
273] All epoch- making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler.
274] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
275] If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677).
276] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
277] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
278] I would not be a slave, To I would not be a master. This express my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
279] Those who can, do; those who can’t teach.
George Bernard Shaw.
280] I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.
Thomas Jetlersen (1743 – 1826)
281] Commonsense is not so common.
282] 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.
283] If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with plato, and more time in the buses with people
Simeon Strunsky
284] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
285] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
286] People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
287] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
288] Every beginning is a consequence every beginning ends something.
Paul valery.
289] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
290] God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln.
291] Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wild (1854 – 1900)
292] The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
293] I gave my life to learning how to live. Now I have organized it all…. It is just about over.
Sandra Hochman
294] A proverb is a short sentence based on a long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
295] A cinic is a man who knows the price of every thing and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900)
296] 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
297] Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784).
298] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
299] 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)
300] 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]
301] If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S.Trumann
302] Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
303] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
304] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
305] To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will and Ariel Durant.
306] A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street.
Laurence . J. Peter.
307] There are a handful of people whom money ourselves among them. -
Mignon Mc. Laughin.
308] 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.
309] The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde.
310] A committee is a thing which taken a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
311] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus
312] 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.”
313] Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam.
314] Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde.
315] The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
316] There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 BC)
317] The past is but the beginning of a beginning.
H.G.Wells.
318] A archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Aganta Christie.
319] 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.
320] Were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley.
321] The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore.
322] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
323] The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H.L. Mencken.
324] Reading made Don Quixote a gentlemen but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard shaw.
325] Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
Felic Cohen
326] There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca (4BC – Ad 65).
327] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
328] A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter Mc Arther
329] The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russel.
330] The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
331] When the candles are out all women are fair
Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ?)
332] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken.
333] Under capitalism man exploits man, under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish Proverb.
334] We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicholson.
335] A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Brooks Adams
336] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
337] People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Milter.
338] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
339] 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.
340] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
341] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
342] Covenants without swords are but words.
Thomas Hobbes
343] [Patience may be virtue, but it will never help a rooster lay an egg.]
344] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
345] The measure of man is what he does with power.
Pittacus (650 ? – 569?BC)
346] To be persuasive, we must be believable, to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
347] When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner.
348] Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
349] A tendency to self- destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain.
A.T. W. Simeons.
350] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann. W. Von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832)
351] 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.
352] 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
353] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
354] Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Horace Lorimer.
355] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
356] There is something that is much more scare, something rather than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability
Robert Half
357] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
358] Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
359] To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy
Sir Thomas Browne. (1605 – 1682)
360] If humanity profits from its mistakes, we have a glorious future coming up.
361] As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
362] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
363] 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.
364] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
365] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
366] Not he who has little, but he who move, is poor.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65)
367] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
368] 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.
369] The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh.
370] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
371] 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.
372] No greater than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friendrich Schiller ( 1729 – 1805)
373] Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar.
374] 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.
375] To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubtsard
376] A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 – 1825)
377] I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
Ambrose pratt.
378] One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander. A. Bogomoletz.
379] 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
380] Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles.F. Kettering.
381] Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alchohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
James .F. Byrnes
382] The deepest principle of ‘Human Nature’ is the craving to be appreciated.
William James.
383] 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
384] Is not this the true romantic feeling – not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you ?
Thomas Clayton wol
385] 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.
386] It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide.
387] There are well dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicholas chamfort.
388] 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.
389] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
390] Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch.
391] Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
392] Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, Courtesy, wisdom, charity.
Dr. William Menninger
393] Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana.
394] To be clever enough to get a great deal of money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton.
395] 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
396] 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.
397] To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius (BC551 – 479 BC)
398] 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
399] If you keep you mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in to it.
William. A. Orton.
400] If you steal from one another it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner.
401] Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
402] Success is counted sweetest, by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
403] Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegnt.
404] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John . F. Kennedy
405] A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann.
406] People ask for criticism but they only want praise.
Somerser Maugham.
407] To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself one in a while.
Josh Billings
408] Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North White head.
409] 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
410] Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard .W. Newton
411] Christ died for our sin. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?.
Jules Feiffer.
412] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchil.
413] Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
414] I believe the state exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of state.
Julian Huxley.
415] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
416] 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.
417] Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland
418] A visionary is an impractical person whose thoughts are based on ideals in a world whose actions are based on deals.
419] If you would not be forgotten as son as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
420] That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry out his work.
Doun Piatt.
421] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
422] The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons.
423] We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our months. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain.
424] Criticism is a study by which men grew important and formidable at very small expense.
Samuel Johnsom (1709 – 1784)
425] My grandfather always said that living is like licking of thorn.
Louis A
426] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
427] Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning … and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
428] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. Mencken.
429] Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery.
430] In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real in progress toward victory
Alfred North White head.
431] 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
432] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson.
433] If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
Martin Luther king.
434] 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
435] A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
436] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
437] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
Walter Bagehot (1876 – 1877).
438] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
439] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
440] There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I am lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (1870-1874)
441] Weed- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Walso Emerson
442] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
443] Put God to work for you and maximize4 your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
Norman Vincent Peale.
444] The stones that critics hurt with Harsh Intent / A man may use to build a monument.
Arther Guiter man
445] It is not best that we should all thinks alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain.
446] If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Thomas fuller (1608 – 1661)
447] The happiest man is one who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Rlph Waldo Emerson.
448] A democratic society might be defined as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann.
449] When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
450] Wiser man learns by other man’s mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn.
451] 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)
452] Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale.
453] The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale.
454] Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo.
455] Hell is not to love any more.
Georges Bernanos.
456] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
457] Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
George Santayana
458] Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw.
459] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?.
The Bible
460] 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
461] To be fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization..
Arnold Toynbee
462] Second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first helf.
Feodor Dostoevski
463] No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense am idiot.
George Bernard shaw.
464] There is far great peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
465] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
466] Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emersom Fosdick.
467] Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H.L Mencken.
468] Up, sluggard and waste not like; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
469] Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie.
470] 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
471] Million say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
472] We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de (1533 – 1592)
473] Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get in to a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw.
474] 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)
475] The goal of life is death.
Sigmund Freud.
476] Any body can be pope; the proof of this that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII.
477] Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
Roy. L. Smith.
478] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
479] 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.
480] It took fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert
481] 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
482] 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)
483] I deals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with you hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz .
484] Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days, without food for weeks, and without ideas for years.
485] Facts are stupid until brought in to connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz (1807 – 1873)
486] Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -1661)
487] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
488] The trouble with her is that she tacks the power of conversation but not he power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw.
489] Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fizgerald.
490] Committee - a group of men individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
491] What man is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown.
492] The most essential gift of a good writer is a built-in, shock, proof shit detector.
Ernest Heming way.
493] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
494] That’s the problem with old age – there’s not much future in it.
495] The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the un important.
A. Edward Newton
496] The secret of education is respecting pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
497] We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Johathan Swift
498] Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have
Harry Omerson Fosdick.
499] Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree
Ezva Pound.
500] 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)
501] 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.
502] The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
503] He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbson Huneker.
504] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
505] You can flatter any man by telling him he’s the kind of man who can’t be flattered.
506] Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
507] 387. Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure.
Henrry Greber
508] The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
Charles Towne.
509] A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
510] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
511] The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton ( 1608 – 1674)
512] Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
513] 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.
514] It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makers people think they can be happy without money.
Albert camus.
515] The best intelligence test is whet we do with our leisure.
516] I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Tomas Love Peacock (1785 – 1866)
517] Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad… but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes.
518] Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt.
519] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathen
520] Faith in a holy cause is to be a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer.
521] Fools rush in where angles fears to tread.
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
522] 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.
523] The finest steel has to go through the hottest five.
Richard M. Nixon
524] When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Budha ( 563? – 483? BC)
525] The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham.
526] The theory of communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
The communist manifesto.
527] You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw.
528] 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.
529] The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henry Becque (1837 – 1899)
530] To know all things is not permitted
Horace ( 65 – 8 BC)
531] Every age is modem to those who are living in it
Justice Benjamin .N. Cardozo
532] Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard.
533] Man is a social animal.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
534] A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
William James
535] 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)
536] True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney.
537] The past is gone; the present is full of confusion; the future scares hell out of me !
David Lewis Stein.
538] One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lose their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
539] In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner
540] Any time you don’t want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge
541] Some are born good, some make good, and some are caught with the goods.
542] The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Lord David cecil
543] All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye
Alexander Pope.
544] Don’t talk unless you can improve silence.
Vermont proverb
545] Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
546] Marriage is a lottery in which if you lose you can’t tear up the ticket.
547] 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
548] 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.
549] Faults are thick where love is thin
James Howell.
550] Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard. M. Baruch.
551] 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
552] 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)
553] The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy . L. Smith.
554] The basic problem is the out civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
555] Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr (1808-11890)
556] A husband is what left of a man after the nerve is extracted.
Helen Rowland.
557] 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
558] 548. Prayer of the modern American: “Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now !”
Oren Arnold.
559] The brighter you are the more you have not learn.
Don Herold.
560] To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
561] 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.
562] We are tomorrow’s past.
Marry Webb
563] The only abnormality is the incapability to love
Anais Nin.
564] There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart end that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt.
565] Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
566] Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G.K. Chesterton
567] Man – a being in search of meaning.
Plato (427 ? 347?BC)
568] A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin.
569] The natural forces crush and destroy man when he transgresses them, as they destroy or neutralize one another.
John Burroughs.
570] A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw.
571] Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis.
572] The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
573] Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland.
574] Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry ward Beecher [ 1813 – 1887]
575] Whenever one fins one self inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russel.
576] The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
Paul Emile Borduas.
577] The image – managers encourage the individual to fashion himself in to a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner.
578] I am not interested in age. People who tell their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden.
579] The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph
580] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
581] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you are overdoing it.
J. Jenkins.
582] The trouble with being tolerant is that people think you don’t understand the problem
Merle. L. Meacham
583] A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan.
584] I hear and I forget I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
585] The victor will never be asked if he fold the truth.
Adolf Hitler
586] Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhiji
587] The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
O.S.Marden.
588] Living is entirely too time- consuming
Irne Peter
589] Life is easier to take than you’d think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris.
590] 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)
591] A man’s defects are the faults of his time while his virtues are his own.
Johann . W. Von Goethe (174 9 -1832)
592] There are three kinds of friends: best friends, guest friends, and pest friends.
593] When the speaker and he to whom he speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
594] Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Neils Bohr
595] Admitting Error clears the score And proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman.
596] Beware of the man who goes to cocktail parties not to drink but to listen.
Pierre Daninos.
597] Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz.
598] The most popular lab our saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams.
599] Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (4BC – AD 65).
600] Every thought is new when an actual expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 – 1747).