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# 15.

"If you want to find out your true opinion of anybody,
just notice the impression made on you, the first time you receive a mail from them."
(Arthur Schopenhauer)

"To me every hour of the light and the dark is a miracle."
(Walt Whitman)

"What soup is to body, laughter is to the soul."
(Yiddish Proverb)

"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
(Cardinal John Henry Newman)

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you are sure that the new one holds water."
(Swedish Proverb)

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
(Queen Elizabeth I)

 
#16.
Quotations by anonymous persons...

(persons-not less great but less well known!)


Money talks. Mine says,"Bye!"

To belittle is to be little!

The love in your heart was not put there to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.

A good way to make a new friend is to smile at a stranger.
You will be surprised how many people smile back.

True beauty is nothing but the halo of happiness.

Never sell the skin till you have caught the bear.

Be good to a friend and friend to good.
 
# 17.

An Arab proverb:-

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not- is a fool. Shun him.

He who knows not, and knows that he knows not- he is simple. Teach him.

He who knows, and knows not that he knows-is asleep. Waken him.

He who knows, and knows that he knows-is wise. Follow him.

P.S
If you are reminded of Arattai Arangam Visu... it is not my fault :) !
 
# 18.

A smile is the Lighting System of your face.

A smile is the warming System of your heart.

A smile is the cooling system of your head.

A smile bridges yawning gaps!

Always wear a pretty smile!

Then your face becomes your passport!
 
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# 19.

Quotations by anonymous persons.


Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.


A smile confuses an approaching frown!


Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.


A meeting is an event where minutes are kept and hours are lost!


Your children know that you love them by your presence, not by your presents.


He who laughs, lasts!


It is O.K to be nobody. Nobody is perfect.



 
# 20.

Quotations by anonymous persons.


I don't have a solution, but I admire the problem!


Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.


A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows all the corners.


Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb at.


Never test the depth of water with both your feet.


Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

 
# 21.

Quotations by anonymous persons:
(persons not less great but less well known)

Life is full of surprises. Just say "Never" and you will see!

Never cross a bridge until you come to it.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Always use tasteful words-you never know when you will have to eat them.

Be modest and proud of it!

If you can't be a good example, be a terrible warning!
 
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# 22.

Quotations by anonymous persons.

I never lend money when there is a "y" in the day.

Two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do!

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left Him.

In youth absence of pleasure is pain; but in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure!

He who laughs last, better do it from a safe distance.

Jewish saying; God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.
 
# 23.

Deft definitions:

Conclusion: A place reached when the person becomes too tired to think!

Hospitality: The art of making your guests feel at home-even when you wish they really were!

Modesty: The gentle art of magnifying your natural charm, by pretending to be unaware of it.

An expert: A person who knows more and more about less and less until he/she knows everything about nothing!

Laughter: The inward jogging of a person.
 
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Deft definitions continued:

Youth: When the Hair is parted in the middle.

Old age: When the hair has departed in the middle.

A diplomat: A person who thinks twice before saying nothing.

A pessimist: A person-if ever he lends money-does not hope to be repaid.

An egoist: A person who never speaks an unkind word-since he keeps talking about himself all the time!

Laughter: The best medicine without any side effects.
 
# 25.

Swedish Proverb:

Fear less.....Hope more.
Eat less......Chew more.
Whine less..Breathe more.
Talk less.....Say more.
Hate less.....Love more.

And all the good things are yours.
 
# 27.

"At the touch of Love, everyone becomes a poet".
Plato

"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned."
G.B.Shaw.

"I always wear battle dress. It is practical, simple, cheap and does not go out of fashion."
Fidel Castro.

"Make new friends but keep the old.
One is silver and the other is gold"
An Old proverb
 
# 28.

"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush"
Anonymous.

"God gives us nuts but he does not crack them".
German proverb.

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patients while nature cures the disease"
Voltaire

"A reed before the wind lives on while the mighty oaks do fall!"

"Mother's knee is the best academy"
 
# 29.

"A merry heart is a good medicine"

"Everything will be OK in the end.
If it is not... it is not the end!"

He who laughs last...thinks slowest.

Smiles are like curds. You need some to make more.

Everybody smiles in the same language.
 
# 30.

"True greatness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good"

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."

"Learning without thought is labour lost.
Thoughts without learning are perilous."

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
(Confucius)
 
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# 31.

"Study the past- if you want to divine the future."

The scholar who cherishes the love of comforts is not fit to be deemed a scholar>"

"To see what is right and not do it is want of courage."

"Better a diamond with flaw than a pebble without."

Confucius.
 
# 32.

Worldly wise sayings.

"Don't sweat petty things.
Don't pet sweaty things"

"A fair face may fade.
A fair soul never fades."

"If everything is under control, you are moving too slow!"

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"


We are a mixture of both fools and angels.

We rush in and also fear to to tread-at the same time.
 
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Old proverbs:-

Stolen waters are sweet.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

Train up a child the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
 
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