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Funny two-liners

• The difference between in-laws and outlaws?
Outlaws are wanted.

• Alcohol is a perfect solvent:
It dissolves marriages, families and careers.

• A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.

• Archeologist: someone whose career lies in ruins.
• An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have:
The older she gets, the more interested he becomes in her.

• There are two kinds of people who don't say much:
those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

• They say that alcohol kills slowly.
So what? Who's in a hurry?

• Alcohol and calculus don't mix.
Never drink and derive

• One nice thing about egotists:
They don't talk about other people.

• There was a man who said,
"I never knew what happiness was until I got married..."
and then it was too late

• Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves.
After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent.
 
Funny Two Liners

Let me add few more two liners

*After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." She replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."

*Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

*It is true that Love is blind, but marriage in definitely an eye opener.
 
I WISH I had told them instead of some random people.

Thank you for the eye-opening two liners!

:welcome: more often with such posts! :)

saidevo said:
Funny two-liners

• The difference between in-laws and outlaws?
Outlaws are wanted.

• Alcohol is a perfect solvent:
It dissolves marriages, families and careers.

• A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.

• Archeologist: someone whose career lies in ruins.
• An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have:
The older she gets, the more interested he becomes in her.

• There are two kinds of people who don't say much:
those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

• They say that alcohol kills slowly.
So what? Who's in a hurry?

• Alcohol and calculus don't mix.
Never drink and derive

• One nice thing about egotists:
They don't talk about other people.

• There was a man who said,
"I never knew what happiness was until I got married..."
and then it was too late

• Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves.
After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent.
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Mature quotes... as usual! :clap2:

:pray2: and :welcome: more often.

Brahmanyan said:
Let me add few more two liners

*After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." She replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."

*Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

*It is true that Love is blind, but marriage in definitely an eye opener.
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AMBITION

Most people will succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. :first:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

No bird soars too high, :nono:
if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake.

And he that strives to touch the stars :rapture:
oft stumbles at a straw. :faint:

Edmund Spenser.
 
# 21. old is gold!

In olden days people used to wear clothes made of natural fibers like cotton, silk or wool. All these are air breathing and harmless to the skin.

The cotton being the most absorbent fiber is the best suited for Indian climate. The silk comes in second and it is auspicious and rich looking. Wool was used to keep the body warm during winter season.

With the invention of the artificial fibers, a hundred different combinations and ratios have come to the market. These are fire breathing and make us sweat and feel stuffy.

I remember the incident when my neighbor's grandson turned one year old. A grand party was arranged and the little boy was dressed in a three piece suit for the grand occasion!!!

He started wailing and howling like never before. I had the presence of mind and requested his mother and grandmother to change him into some cool, loose fitting cotton dress. His crying stopped as if by magic. He was too young to complain and all he could do was to cry.

Read on to learn the hazards in wearing polyester fibers:-
Polyester Vs. Natural Fibers

While natural fibers themselves rarely cause contact dermatitis, their irregular shapes leave room for dust mites, pollen and other allergens to become trapped in the fabric.

Pure cotton wrinkles easily, so manufacturers might treat the fibers with formaldehyde resins that could provoke an allergic reaction.

Polyester's smooth fibers shed dust and pollen readily, but the polyester itself might be an irritant to your skin.

Pure silk, linen, wool and denim rarely receive treatment with resins, so these natural fabrics are free of both

polyester and polishing agents that could irritate your skin.
 
For small children the ratio of the surface area of the skin to the

body mass is more.

So they will feel the heat as well cold more than we do.

"Nangaa Raja" is the happiest child since he wears next to

nothing - may be a soft napkin or a cotton jatti!

P.S : Nangaa = Naked.
 
Anger.

When angry count 10 before you speak; :mad:
if very angry, 100. :mad2:
Thomas Jefferson.

Violence in the voice is often only the :rant:
death rattle of reason in the throat. :rolleyes:
John. F. Boyes.

A man in passion rides a mad horse.
Benjamin Franklin.
 
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# 22. Old is Gold!

In olden days the beds and the pillows were made of cotton or silk cotton. They would absorb the sweat and can be sun dried to make them clean, dry and fluffy again.

There were soft but not very soft as not to offer any support to the body. So the sleep was beneficial and no one got out of the bed with a sprain or a low back pain or a neck pain.

Foam mattresses look solid and attractive but do more harm than good to us. They are non absorbing, heat producing, highly inflammable.

Read on to learn the hazards of the now-famous memory foam beds which are supposed to support the body perfectly!
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A memory foam bed!

When new, some memory foams give off a distinct chemical odor, which many people find unpleasant and some say is akin to the smell of paint. This odor decreases with airing, but some remain sensitive.

Emissions from memory foam mattresses may cause more respiratory irritation than other mattresses; however mildew and house dust mites may not occur as frequently, so asthma attacks may be less frequent and severe.

Memory foam can be combustible like all the other polyurethane products. State and US Federal Laws have been enacted in the USA to require that all bedding, including memory foam items, be resistant to ignition from an open flame such as a candle or cigarette lighter.

New bedding laws that went into effect in 2010 change the Cal-117 Bulletin for FR testing. There is concern that high levels of the fire retardant PBDE, commonly used in memory foam, could cause health problems for users.

PBDEs are no longer used in most bedding foams, especially in the European Union.
Manufacturers caution about leaving babies and small children unattended on a memory foam mattress, as they may find it more difficult to turn and rotate and may suffocate.
Courtesy Wikipedia.

 
Those days, cotton plants were plenty in India. In fact the importance of
cotton is also mentioned in Rig Veda. Besides, Indians never use sheep's wool
but used the wool produced by wild trees that grew in the forest and on the
hill sides. In fact, Women and Men never used Chappals and they used to walk
barefooted.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur
 
Atheism.
An atheist is a man who has no :nono:
invisible means of support! :angel:
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

By night an atheist half believes a God. :decision:
Edward Young.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,
but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds above religion.
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Francis bacon.
 
# 23. Old is gold!

Every house used to have a garden - small or big with a few flowering plants and some vegetables at the back yard. A small pit was dug at the corner of the garden. The vegetable peels and the ash produced by burning the fire wood in the stoves were thrown in it everyday.

In due course, it produced rich manure which was used to nourish the garden. So the wastage disposal was automatically taken care. The manure needed for the garden was produced there itself and battalions of house flies were not bred.

Today if the workers who remove the garbage do not turn up for work for two days the entire city rots like a giant dust bin - posing serious health hazards to the population.
 
Belief.

All ages of belief have been great; :thumb:
all of unbelief have been mean. :heh:
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Men credit most easily the things
which they do not understand.
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They believe most readily things
that are obscure. :confused:
Tacitus.
 
# 24. Old is gold.

In the olden times ceiling fans were considered a luxury and even those who had these fans fitted also had a guarding net fitted beneath them so that they do not land on a person's head like bolt from the blue.

Table fans were used as and when necessary. Pedestal fans were also a luxury which occupied more space and were more costly.

Now even a new born child cannot sleep without a fan running. The moment the fan is switched off, its crying is switched on! There is no air circulation due to the tall concrete structures we have built all over the place.

I remember with affection the fresh cool air carrying the fragrance of the flowers from the garden which used to blow into our bedrooms in the first floor.

Nobody needed a fan then. It was a luxury reserved for the sons in law when they visited.

 
Books.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. :first:
Henry David Thoreau.

To desire to have many books, and never use the, is like the child that will have a candle burning by him while he is sleeping. :rolleyes:
Henry Peacham.

 
# 25. Old is Gold.

Mosquito repellents have become the necessity of the day.

Those with visible fumes and smells and those which work silently are both dangerous for the human beings.

No one breaths fresh air now. The mosquito repellent gadget is kept ON all the time.

The major problem is due the the stagnant water in which the mosquitoes breeds.

In olden days, the water used in the kitchen and the bathrooms were led to the trees and plants in the back yard.

The soil absorbed it immediately and there was hardly any stagnant water favoring the breeding of mosquitoes.

Now entire earth has become the breeding ground for these giant sized mosquitoes (which can defy the strong wind blown by the fan ) and have learned to fly against it!
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
Can you please give the statement in simpler English???
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Why? It is simple enough.

"Be judicious enough to be magnanimous to the achievements (or plus points) of the other person and also take care not to belittle him because of his(the other person's) flaws or failures" - this is what I understood.
 
Thank you very much!
I really failed to comprehend the statement
until you explained it so well!
I ONLY hope it is applicable to everyone and everywhere.

zebra16 said:
Why? It is simple enough.

"Be judicious enough to be magnanimous to the achievements (or plus points) of the other person and also take care not to belittle him because of his(the other person's) flaws or failures" - this is what I understood.
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nannilam_balasubramanian said:
One should be a person of judiciousness to behave with magnanimity without
prioritizing the incidental flaws of others. ....
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What I understood is this:

A person should be reasonable enough to be magnanimous, with no priority to point out the mistakes of others!!

In short: கண்டுக்காமப் போங்கோ!! :cool:
 
Books.

A good book is a precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. :hail:

John Milton.


I love to lose myself in other men's minds.:love:
When I am not walking , I am reading.
I can't sit and think. Books think for me.

Charles Lamb.
 
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