100. There are no athiests in foxholes. -
William T. Cummings
101. I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones. -
A. Einstein
103. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.-
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
104. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
105. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.-
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
106. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.-
Dwight D. Eisenhower
107. What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.-
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
*108. War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
109. We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. -
Oscar Wilde
110. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. -
Oscar Wilde
111. I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium." -
Steven Wright
112. So what's the speed of dark? -
Steven Wright
113. "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." -
Albert Einstein
115. If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don't come running to me -
Groucho Marx
116. There is only one way to find out if a man is honest...ask him. If he says 'yes', you know he is crooked. -
Groucho Marx
*117. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it-
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
118. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -
George Bernard Shaw
*119. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -
George Bernard Shaw
120. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -
Groucho Marx
121. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -
Henry Ford
122. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't nany advice from meeed . With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -
Henry Ford
123. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right. -
Henry Louis Mencken
124. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -
Henry Louis Mencken
*125. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -
Isaac Asimov
127. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
128. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
129. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
*130. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -
John F. Kennedy
*131. If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -
John Kenneth Galbraith
132. Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old. -
Jonathan Swift
133. If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been much better. -
Karl Marx 's Mother
134. We must become the change we want to see. -
Mahatma Gandhi
135. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -
Mahatma Gandhi
136. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. -
Mark Twain
137. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. -
Mark Twain
*138. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. -
Mark Twain
139. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. -
Martin Luther King, Jr
140. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -
Mother Teresa
141. In politics stupidity is not a handicap. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
142. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
143. Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -
Niels Bohr
145. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -
Oscar Wilde
146. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. -
Oscar Wilde
*147. Good people do not to tell them to act responsibly, while need laws bad people will find a way around the laws. -
Plato
148. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
149. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -
Robert Frost
150. A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -
Robert Frost
*151. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -
Ronald Reagan
152. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -
Isaac Asimov
153. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -
Samuel Johnson
154. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -
Scott Adams
155. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -
Socrates
156. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -
Steven Wright
157. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -
Theodore Roosevelt
158. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. -
Thomas Edison
*159. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none. -
Thomas Jefferson
160. What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -
Ursula K. LeGuin
161. A witty saying proves nothing. -
Voltaire
162. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -
Voltaire
*163. Just be thankful you're not getting all the government you're paying for. -
Will Rogers
164. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -
Winston Churchill
165. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. -
Winston Churchill
166. Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the others. -
Winston Churchill
167. I'd love to go out with you, but I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian
168. Marry not a tennis player. Love means nothing to her.
169. Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.
170. Be on the lookout for a leopard which escaped from the zoo early this morning. It was spotted near the corner of 12th and Cherry at around 8 AM, and in all likelihood still is.
171. Historical reminder: always put Horace before Descartes.
-- Donald O. Rickter
172. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -
Fred Allen
173. A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. -
Dixy Lee Ray
174. After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. -
Cato the Elder
175. In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
--- Edward Abbey
176. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
--- Edward Abbey
177. Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.
---John Abernethy
*178. You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
---Edwin Louis Cole
179. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
---Charles Caleb Colton
180. No one really knows enough to be a pessimist
---Norman Cousins
181. If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
---Anthony J. D'Angelo
*182. There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
---Peter F Drucker
183. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
---Albert Einstein
184. For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
---Harlan Ellison
185. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
186. In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
---Epicurus
187. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
--- Alfred Adler
188. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--- Howard Aiken
189. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
--- Oscar Ameringer
190. Reject hatred without hating.
---Mary Baker Eddy
191. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
---Pierre Augustin Caron de Baumarchais
192. If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
--- Hans A. Bethe
193. To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
--- Otto von Bismarck
194. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
195. "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
196. "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." --Thomas Szasz
197. "Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." --Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
198. If Columbus would have turned back, nobody would have blamed him, of course, nobody would have remembered him either. --- Anon
199. "It is important to our friends that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not." --Mignon McLaughlin
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