200. "You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are." --B. C. Forbes
201. "Walk away from it [your problems] until you get stronger. All your troubles will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope." --Lady Bird Johnson
202. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
-- Groucho Marx
203. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
204. "True friends stab you in the front."
-- Oscar Wilde
205. "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
-- Paul Guaguin
206. A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. -
Anonymous
207. Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. -
Anonymous
208. Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. -
Anonymous
209. Write a wise saying and your name will live forever -
Anonymous
210. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. -
Isaac Asimov
211. Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -
Isaac Asimov
212. Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. -
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
213. The covers of this book are too far apart. -
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
214. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. -
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
215. All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -
Samuel Butler
216. There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. -
Robert Byrne
217. Weather forecast for tonight: dark. -
George Carlin
218. I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -
Johnny Carson
219. If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. -
Johnny Carson
220. Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. -
G. K. Chesterton
221. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -
G. K. Chesterton
222. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -
G. K. Chesterton
223. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -
Sir Winston Churchill
224. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. -
Sir Winston Churchill
225. Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. -
Sir Winston Churchill
226. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. -
Arthur C. Clarke
227. Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. -
Bill Cosby
228. How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. -
Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24, 1860
229. We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -
Thomas A. Edison
230. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. -
W. C. Fields
231. Last week, I went to Philidelphia, but it was closed. -
W. C. Fields
232. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -
Benjamin Franklin
233. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. -
Graffiti
234. I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. -
Samuel Johnson
235. "How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?"
--Harry Truman
236. "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
- -Gordon R. Dickson
237. Most people like the old days best they were younger then.
- -Anonymous
238. Aging is bad, but consider the alternative.
- -Anonymous
239. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- -Evelyn Waugh
240. The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
- -Marcus Tullius Cicero
241. No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkeness or as good as drink.
- -G.K. Chesterton
242. The scalded cat fears even cold water.
- -Thomas Fuller
243. Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
- -Arnold Edinborough
244. Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
- -Steven Wright
245. "Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
- -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
246. "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
- -Andr� Gide
247. "There is no such thing as modern art. There is art--and there is advertising."
- -Albert Sterner
248. "Death to all fanatics!"
249. "Your kid may be an honor student but you're still an IDIOT!"
250. "Jesus is coming, everyone look busy."
251. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. -
--- Dwight Eisenhower
252. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.- from an address at Peoria, IL 9/25/56
--- Dwight Eisenhower
253. It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
--- Henry Ford
254. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
--- Ben Franklin
255. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
--- Ben Franklin
256. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
--- Ben Franklin
257. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
--- Ben Franklin
*258. "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
- Ray Bradbury
259. "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality."
- James Joyce
260. "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
- Theodore Rubin
261. "When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."
- Henry Ford
262. "Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children."
- W. H. Auden
263. Give me a smart idiot before a stupid genius any day."
- Sam Goldwyn
*264. "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."
- John W. Raper
265. "Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it."
- James T. O'Brien
266. "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."
- J. Brotherton
267. "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
- Jessamyn West
268. "The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
- Oscar Wilde
269. "Every mother knows her favorite child was the one who deserved love the least... but needed it the most."
- Erma Bombeck
270. "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."
- J.P. Donleavy
271. "The trouble with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long."
- Anonymous
272. "It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful."
- Nietzsche
273. "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton
*274. "The more laws, the less justice."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
275. "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
- Don Herold
276. "The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."
- Gay Talese
277. "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
-Clarence Darrow
278. Any man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -Muhammad Ali
279. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen)
280. "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." (Thomas Alva Edison)
281. "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison)
*282. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." (Mario Andretti)
283. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous)
284. "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reigns." (Anonymous)
285. "The darkest hour is only sixty minutes." (Anonymous)
286. "The White House has always attracted the mentally ill." (Anonymous, secret service agent)
287. "Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." (Clive Barnes)
288. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry)
289. "Now comes the mystery." (Henry Ward Beecher, last words)
290. "Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence." (Ambrose Bierce)
291. "The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." (Daniel Boorstin)
*292. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." (Nadia Boulanger)
293. "Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God." -
(Heywood Broun)
294. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -
(Les Brown)
295. "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or aquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." -
(Gelett Burgess)
296. "Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'" -
(Nicholas Murray Butler)
297. "There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him." --Benjamin Franklin
298. "There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head." --Thornton Wilder
299. "No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why." --Mignon McLaughlin
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