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Time to time I have come across some cute, funny, meaningful and thought
provoking statements in newspapers, books, graffiti, mail signatures,
fortunes and so on. Here are some for you.
- A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.
- Aim of conversation should be to express, not to impress.
- Don't ASSUME too much else you will make an ASS of yoU and ME.
- Forgive your enemies; don't forget them.
- How glorious it is and also how painful - to be an exception.
- If you wish to succeed in anything then ask a woman for advice and do
the opposite.
- Parachutes and Mind function only when open.
- Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
- Software Industry : the unique industry where selling substandard goods
is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.
- There are no strangers in the world, only the friends we have never met.
- Whenever you fall, pick something up.
- A Professor is one who talks in others' sleep.
- Charlie Brown : Why am I sent to this world?
Linus : To make others happy.
Charlie Brown : Why have others been sent?
- Fifth law of applied terror: If you are given an open-book exam,
you will forget your book.
corollary: If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget
your home.
- It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he
knows what it is.
- What you don't know, won't hurt you.
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
- A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves
a mark.
- A spiritual personality brings people together and materialistic
divides them.
- Being deeply loved gives you strength, but loving deeply gives you courage.
- Don't do unto others, what you don't want to be done with you.
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterward.
- Govern by doing nothing that goes against the nature.
- If you don't take NO for an answer, there is still a hope that you will
get what you want.
- Love is not a matter of getting what you want.
- Never make any promises when you are in great joy and never answer when
you are angry.
- The common thing between lazy and busy people is that they never complete
their work.
- The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
- Try to be the best of whatever you are, even if what you are is no good.
- We need lots of love to forgive, but we need much more humility to ask for
forgiveness.
- When God answers your prayer, he is increasing your faith. If he delays, he
is increasing your patience. And if he does not answer, he knows you can
handle it perfectly well.
- If you always give, you will always have.
- In the day I praised you and I never knew it.
In the night I stayed with you and never knew it.
I always thought that I was me...
but no. I was you and I never knew it. (Rumi)
- Life is real only when I am.
- Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.
- Patience is power.
- To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Created on January 06, 2005
(Last update : April 08, 2006)