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Think or sink!

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 had 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.
 
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 OR nothing about everything!

Laughter: The inward jogging of a person.
 
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.
 
Deaf persons are very difficult to live with.
More so when their speakers are gone and
they prefer not to use the speakers in the gadgets.
They can't hear properly; they supply their own words for the 'fill in the blanks' and suffer.
They also make the others suffer by their distorted and weird imagination running riot.
Is it in any way easier to live with persons who have some other faculty seriously impaired???
 
"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
 
"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"
 
"A merry heart is a good medicine."
It is hard to buy but easy to create.

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

He who laughs last...perhaps thinks the slowest.

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

Everybody smiles and scowls in the same Universal language.
 
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போர்புரி காண்டம்
நாரணன் என்னுந் தேவும் நான்முகத் தவனு முக்கண்
பூரணன் தானும் ஆகிப் புவிபடைத் தளித்து மாற்றி
ஆரண முடிவுந் தேறா அநாதியாய் உயிர்கட் கெல்லாம்
காரணன் ஆய மேலோன் கழலிணை கருத்துள் வைப்பாம்.
 
"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)
 
"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.
 
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, then you are moving too slow!"

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

We all are a mixture of both fools and angels.

We rush in and also fear to tread - at the same time.
 
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.
 
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of new ideas.

A woman's grief is like a summer storm-short as it violent is.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Crafty men condemn studies,
Simple men admire them,
Wise men use them.
 
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.

Man was not born for himself but for his country.

Time brings everything.

Through obedience learn to command.

The good is the beautiful.

(Plato)
 
I get annoyed by the number of USB chargers lying tangled - each of which can be used only with one particular gadget.
One END of the USB charger is the same for all the chargers. Why should the other end be different for different gadgets? Can't we just have a Universal Charger - which will be compatible with every gadget made and avoid tons and tons of eco unfriendly E waste?
 
The same thing with the button type batteries that go into different gadgets.

We have to order for a minimum of 6 batteries and each type would fit only in one gadget.

By the time we have to change battery the other batteries would have expired!

On the one hand we keep lecturing about avoiding and reducing the eco unfriendly waste

while all the time we are producing more and more of them!
 
Poets utter great wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors.

The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State.

(Plato)
 
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool

may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

(Charles Caleb Colton).
 
Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship-never.
(How else can we explain the acid attacks on the exes ? )

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare,
and trash will remain.

Some read to think,-these are rare;
some to unite,- these are common; and
some to talk,-and these form the great majority.

Charles Caleb Colton.
 
Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is an art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

We think as we do, mainly because other people think so.

The history of art is the history of revival.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
 

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