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Think or sink!

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS QUOTES

Argument is the worst sort of conservation. :argue:
(Argument is a verbal fight in which the person who is wrong shouts louder than the one who is right!) :rant:

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
(Good thing that his ideas have not yet become actions!) :rolleyes:

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken!
(Why then spend so much time in creating the beautiful pie crusts!)

Quotes by Jonathan Swift
 
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நெஞ்சில் உரமும் இன்றி நேர்மைத் திறமும் இன்றி
வஞ்சனை சொல்வாரடி கிளியே...
வாய்ச் சொல்லில் வீரரடி

உப்பென்றும் சீனி என்றும் உள்நாட்டு சேலையென்றும்
உப்பென்றும் சீனி என்றும் உள்நாட்டு சேலையென்றும்
செப்பித் திரிவாரடி கிளியே... செப்பித் திரிவாரடி கிளியே...
செய்வதறியாரடி கிளியே...

வாய்ச் சொல்லில் வீரர் = people who shout louder and louder visually with every subsequent post

- without solving any problem/ without giving any solution/ without getting anything useful done!
 


301 (a). வில்லேந்தியவன் எல்லாம் வீரன் அல்ல.

301 (b). All are not hunters that blow the horn.

https://veenaaramani.wordpress.com/east-meets-west/quotes-301-to-310/

Corollary:

வில்லேந்தியவன் எல்லாம் வீரன் அல்ல! :nono:

சங்கு ஊதுபவன் எல்லாம் சூரன் அல்ல! :nono:

குதிரையில் ஏறியவன் எல்லாம் அரசன் அல்ல! :nono:

(அதுவும் குதிரை குண்டுச் சட்டிக்கு உள்ளே இருக்கும்போது!) :rolleyes:
 
சிரிக்க! :decision: சிந்திக்க!

பேசும் கிளி!

பேசும் கிளி விலை வெறும் ஐநூறு ரூபாய்!

“பேசுமா இந்தக் கிளி?” என்று கேட்டால்,

பேசியது அது “அதில் என்ன சந்தேகம்?”

“நல்ல பேரம் தான் ஆனாலும் இன்னும்

சொல்லட்டும் ஒரு வார்த்தை மீண்டும்!”

“ஐநூறு ரூபாய் பெறுவாயா நீ சொல்லு?”

“அதிலென்ன சந்தேகம்!” என்றது கிளி.

உற்சாகமாக வாங்கி வந்தான் வீட்டுக்கு.

பிறகு தெரிந்தது அந்தக் கிளி பேசுவது

அந்த வார்த்தைகளை மட்டுமே என்று!

“உன்னை போய் விலைக்கு வாங்கினேனே

நான் ஒரு மாங்காய் மடையன் தானே?” :loco:

“அதில் என்ன சந்தேகம்?” என்று

ஒரே போடாய்ப் போட்டது கிளி. :wacko:

இது எப்படி இருக்கு??? :rolleyes:
 
Fate rewritten!

A man was destined to earn his livelihood as a milk vendor. It was not to his liking but he had no choice! He evolved his own method of getting even with the Goddess of Fortune.

He did not raise a finger or move a muscle to procure a cow or buffalo. So the Goddess of Fortune made a rich man present our hero with a cow. He milked the cow; sold the milk and the cow and donated all the money! He was penniless by the end of the day.

So the next day he received a cow from anther rich man who was prompted by the Goddess of fortune to present the man with a cow.

The same story was repeated. As days rolled by there were no more donors of cows left in the village. The Goddess of Fortune was at her wit’s ends!

Finally she decided to rewrites the man’s destiny as desired by him.

Moral: Stubbornness and strength can make your dreams come true!
 
Food for thoughts quotes

Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.
(May be he wants to become younger while he is growing older!) :rolleyes:


I am as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
(Then why does the relative old tongue never parts company
while the relatively younger teeth decide to depart sooner!_ :wave:

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
(But these two women will be the 'third person' for very other woman!)

Quotes by Jonathan Swift
 
The generous mami with a loud voice and a large heart will be celebrating her sadhAbhishekham tomorrow. Our family is one of the four families (of friends) invited for the celebration. So my posts may be delayed by a few hours!
 
A GRAND OLD PAATTI (102 YEARS YOUNG ) FINALLY DECIDED TO TAKE OFF TODAY! :rip:

HER ONLY SON AND D.I.L. (THEMSELVES IN THEIR 70S )MUST BE REALLY RELIEVED.

THEIR COMPLAINT WAS THAT THEY COULD NOT MOVE FREELY AROUND VISITING PEOPLE.

SO WHEN THE OTHERS VISIT THEIR SON/DAUGHTER AND SPEND A FEW MONTHS/ WEEKS WITH THEM THESE PEOPLE GLOW GREEN.

IT IS TIME TO CHECK IT OUT WHETHER THEY WILL REALLY START VISITING PEOPLE NOW!
 
FOOD FOR THOUGHTS QUOTES:

Wit in conversation is, in a midwife's phrase, a quick conception and an easy delivery.
(Is brain the mother or the father of this baby called Wit???)

Elephants are always drawn smaller in life but a flea always larger.
(We have very little choice in this matter since both the size of the paper
and power of the eye are limited in nature.)

Jonathan Swift.
 
சிரிக்க! :decision: சிந்திக்க!

காதும், கண்ணும்

ஒரு army interview வில் கேட்டார்கள்,

“ஒரு காதை வெட்டினால் என்ன ஆகும்?”

“அந்தக் காது கேட்காது!”

“இரண்டு காதையும் வெட்டினால்?”

“கண் தெரியாது!”

“எப்படி? ஏன்?”

“தொப்பி கீழே இறங்கி கண்ணை மறைக்குமே!”

என்றான் அவன்.

இரண்டாவது ஆள் வந்தான்.

அவனும் இரண்டாவது கேள்விக்கு பதில்

“கண் தெரியாது” என்றான்.

அவன் தொப்பி அணிந்திருக்கவில்லை.

ஆனால் அவன் கண்ணாடி அணிந்திருந்தான்.

காதில்லாவிட்டால் கண்ணாடி நிற்காதே! :nerd:
 
Faith vs Fate.

A beautiful woman was shocked to learn that according to her horoscope, she was destined to earn her livelihood through the oldest profession known to man! She did not have the good fortune of marrying a man – who would take care of her needs.

Anyone would have crumbled to dust by such a dire prediction but not this woman! She was wise, brave and had faith. She thought of an infallible plan to defeat Fate.

She set her price so high that no ordinary man can dream of coming near her home. Destiny had to provide her with livelihood – since she had completed her part of the condition!

Only a king could afford to visit her. So the Fate made sure that King visited her and paid her well.

But the woman was more shrewd than any of us can imagine.

She gave away her entire earnings to the poor and needy living nearby – retaining exactly what she will for one day’s expenditure.

The king HAD to visit her the next day also, since she was bankrupt by the evening. This went on for several days. The poor and needy blessed her and worshiped her as Goddess Lakshmi.

The King was duly impressed by her beauty, brain, and boldness that he built a royal palace for her and made her his best companion for the rest of his life.

Had she been less smart, or had less faith she would have ruined her life and health as any common woman would have done!

Moral of the story?

Never lose Faith and never give up Hope!
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
Faith vs Fate.

A beautiful woman was shocked to learn that according to her horoscope, she was destined to earn her livelihood through the oldest profession known to man! She did not have the good fortune of marrying a man – who would take care of her needs.

Anyone would have crumbled to dust by such a dire prediction but not this woman! She was wise, brave and had faith. She thought of an infallible plan to defeat Fate.

She set her price so high that no ordinary man can dream of coming near her home. Destiny had to provide her with livelihood – since she had completed her part of the condition!

Only a king could afford to visit her. So the Fate made sure that King visited her and paid her well.

But the woman was more shrewd than any of us can imagine.

She gave away her entire earnings to the poor and needy living nearby – retaining exactly what she will for one day’s expenditure.

The king HAD to visit her the next day also, since she was bankrupt by the evening. This went on for several days. The poor and needy blessed her and worshiped her as Goddess Lakshmi.

The King was duly impressed by her beauty, brain, and boldness that he built a royal palace for her and made her his best companion for the rest of his life.

Had she been less smart, or had less faith she would have ruined her life and health as any common woman would have done!

Moral of the story?

Never lose Faith and never give up Hope!
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Dear VR ji,

Moral of the story is...Do Not Believe in Horoscope.

She could have just done any other job and not follow blindly what was written in her horoscope...so frankly she had not much brains.
 
renuka said:
Dear VR ji,

Moral of the story is...Do Not Believe in Horoscope.

She could have just done any other job and not follow blindly what was written in her horoscope...so frankly she had not much brains.
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Dear Renu,
We may make some plans but destiny decides what we should be or become.
We have seen lawyers becoming actors, doctors becoming politicians,
engineers becoming singers and auditors becoming swamijis.
Whether or not we believe in Horroscope, 'whatever will be will be!'
 
சிரிக்க!
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சிந்திக்க!

எத்தனை வேற்றுமைகள்!

ஒரு information கேட்க வேண்டி
ஒரு neighbor வீட்டுக்கு வந்தார்.

கதவுக்குக் குறுக்கே கையை நன்கு
பதிய வைத்து பேசி அனுப்பினார்

கால் மணி நேரம், அவரிடம் இவர்.
கால் கடுக்க மனிதர் நின்றிருந்தார்.

“உள்ளே வரச் சொல்லி ஒரு சேரில்
உட்காரச் சொல்லி இருக்கலாமே!”

“வேறு வேலை இல்லையா எனக்கு!”
வேறு வேலை எனக்கும் இருந்தது.

நிற்க வைத்து பேசினாலும் அல்லது
நீட்டாக உட்கார வைத்து பேசினாலும்

அதே நேரம் தான் ஆகும் அல்லவா?
ஏதோ காரணம் சொல்ல வேண்டுமே!

பிறகு கண்டு கொண்டேன் இதுவும் நம்
பிறவியிலேயே வரும் ஒரு வேறுபாடு.

வீட்டுக்கு வந்த ஒருவர் பையனிடம்,
“அப்பா இருக்காரா கண்ணா?” என்றால்,

‘பேட்’டுடன் வெளியே சென்றுகொண்டே,
“அப்பா மாமா வீட்டுக்குப் போயிருக்கார்!”

உள்ளே இருந்து ஓடிவரும் அவன் தங்கை,
“உள்ளே வந்து உக்காருங்கோ மாமா!

அப்பா மாமா வீட்டுக்குப் போயிருக்கார்!
அப்பா இப்போ வந்துடுவார்!” என்று கூறி

சேரும் அமர்வதற்கு அளித்துவிட்டு
நீரும் குடிப்பதற்கு அவருக்கு அளிப்பாள்!

A BOY AND GIRL WILL NEVER BEHAVE THE SAME WAY.
NOR WILL A MAN AND A WOMAN BEHAVE IN THE SAME WAY!
 
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Who was the sinner?

There was a heavy thunderstorm. Assorted people took refuge in the mandapam attached to an old temple. The slashing rain and recurring thunderbolts posed a grave problem to the eleven people in the mandapam – nine men, a woman and her child.

Thunderbolts were striking all around the mandapam. The wisest and the oldest of the eleven members told the others,

”God wants to punish one of us. If we all stay together, all of us may lose our lives unnecessarily. So each of us will go out and stand in the rain for a few seconds. If we are pure nothing bad will happen to us.”

Everyone agreed to this plan. The oldest and the wisest man stepped out in the rain first. He stood vulnerable to the rain and thunderbolts for a few seconds. Nothing happened to him. He heaved a sigh of relief and returned to the mandapam.

Now the second man stepped out. He too returned unhurt. This went on till all the men had stepped out and now it was the turn of the woman.

She too came back unharmed. The child was too young to brave the rain and thunder. So the mother carried it in he arms and went into the rain again.

Lo and behold what happened! The biggest thunderbolt hit the mandapam, demolishing it completely and killing everyone inside it.

So who was the sinner and who the savior?
 
Food for thought s quotes by Shakespeare.

A barber's chair fits all buttocks!
(How bout those of a dentist/a doctor/an executive?)

Better be a witty fool than a foolish wit.
(I thought the words 'witty' and 'foolish' were mutually exclusive!)

Commit the oldest sin in the newest way!
(The newest ways have become manifold since your time!)
 
The 80 year old mami received many grand silk saris as gifts yesterday.

When will she were them?

(She only goes to a hospital for monthly health check up!)

Where she will wear them to?

(They are too grand to be worn to the temple or to the hospital!)

How will she wear those heavy silk saris?

(As we grow older we lose the curve in the hip and the pleats of the heavy sari keeps sliding down all the time - often tripping our steps!)

I for one always believe that the gift must be useful to and usable by the person it is presented to!! :)

A student was thrilled when I gave her a 'kadir of paddy' which got her very good marks in her science project!
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
The 80 year old mami received many grand silk saris as gifts yesterday.

When will she were them?

(She only goes to a hospital for monthly health check up!)

Where she will wear them to?

(They are too grand to be worn to the temple or to the hospital!)

How will she wear those heavy silk saris?

(As we grow older we lose the curve in the hip and the pleats of the heavy sari keeps sliding down all the time - often tripping our steps!)

I for one always believe that the gift must be useful to and usable by the person it is presented to!! :)

A student was thrilled when I gave her a 'kadir of paddy' which got her very good marks in her science project!
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Never write off senior citizens.

My mother in law was frequently hospitalised -variety of aliments with glucoma, blood sugar ,bp etc

everytime leaving hospital used to be a grand event with silk saree, with glittering diamond ear rings, nose rings , thali bright with gold chains.

Homecoming used to get celebrated with feasts.

She had a zest for goods living with positive attitudes.

Loved music,enjoy tamil serials, cricket matches
 
She who hesitates is lost.
A woman who hesitates is eventually won over.

This explains why a stone ammikkal is used during the
Hindu wedding ceremony and not a gold/silver plank.

The bride is supposed to be as firm and sturdy as the stone is
and not melt or bend as the metals will do.

What a noble concept formed eons ago! :thumb:

 

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