Famous sayings

Two sorts of writers possess genius; those who think and those who cause others to think.
---------Roux

A man should never be ashamed to admit he is in the wrong,which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
---------Jonathan swift


The darkest hour in any mans life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
----------Horace Greely

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
----------Sir William Blackstone

The course of human history is determined not by what happensin the skies but by waht takes place in the hearts of men.
---------Sir Arthur Keith

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed,too severe,seldom executed.
----------Benjamin Franklin

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered.
-----------Cicero

It is far easier to conquer others than conquer oneself because the former can be attained by recourse to outside means,while the latter can be achieved only with ones own mind.
-----------Mahatma Gandhi

To a brave man,good and bad luck are like his right and left hands.He uses both.
------------St. Catherine of Siena

The mind is the man,and the knowledge is the mind;a man is but what he knoweth.
-----------Francis Bacon.

There is no education like adversity.
-----------Disraeli

One of Gods dictates is: you can be happy;you can be powerful;but you cannot enjoy both.
----------Ralph Waldo Emerson.

However brilliant an action may be,it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.
---------La Rochefoucauld

If you know how to compose your life,you have accomplished a great deal more than the man who knows how to compose a book.
------------Montaigne

Some people look at things as they are and ask,why? I dream of things as they never were and ask,why not?
----------Robert Kennedy.

When dictatorship is fact,revolution becomes right.
--------Victor Hugo

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
--------Coleridge

The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
---------Albert Einstein.

The greatest good for the man is to become conformable to the will of God.
-------St Thomas Aquinas

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
-------John Ruskin.

Gods ways seem dark at times,but sooner or later,they touch the shining hills of the day.
--------J.G. Whittier.

Cowardice can never be moral.I do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence,I would advice violence.
--------Mahatma Gandhi.

Happy is the country where the honest man speaks as loud as a scoundrel.
--------Lord Palmerston.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
---------George MacDonald.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows,let them not be written upon the heart.The spirit should not grow old.
--------James A.Garfield.

We cannot reach the stars perhaps,but looking at the stars does keep our heads high,and it does keep our bodies straight.
-------Jawharlal Nehru.

Where boasting ends,there dignity begins,
-------Rev. Young

Humility is resilience.In resilience there is the power of tenacity,the art of winning over and the climax of heroism.
---------Vinobaji

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
--------Charles Darwin

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
-------Goethe

Happy the kings whose thrones are founded on their peoples hearts.
------Henry Ford

Nothing in life is to be feared.It is only to be understood.

To forgive is human but to forget is divine.

The true question is what we gain,but what we do.

Love is nothing save an insatiate thirst to enjoy a greedily desired object.
--------Montaigne

Men's nature are alike,it is their habits that carry them apart.
--------Confucius.

Whatever you want that others should do to you,do that yourself to others.For this is the rule.
-------Jesus Christ

Man does not live by words alone,despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
---------Adlai Stevenson

Dont judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experience.
---------Goethe

The best way to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
-------Lord Hailsham

A man who knows his lesson well but does not live it,is like a man who lights a lamp and closes his eyes.

Let the most difficult duty be your most sacred duty.
-------Lavater

Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
-------Thackeray.

Generally the theories we believe we call facts and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-------Felix Cohan

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
--------Harry Ruby

Useless is the wisdom of one who has no knowledge of himself.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Through indecision,opportunity is often lost.
-------Syrus

The more we exploit nature,the more our options are reduced until we have only one:to fight for survival.
--------Morris k.Udall

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
-------John Kenneth Galbraith

The world belongs belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
-------William Mcfee

To be ignorant of ones ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
--------A.B.Alcott
Public opinion is a peoples invisible Armour.
---------Ludwig Boerne

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-------George Moore

You can fool all the people some of the time,but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
--------Abraham Lincoln

Though a man be kept ignorant,he cannot be made ignorant.
-------Thomas Paine

He is happiest,king or peasant,who finds peace in his home.

Leadership is not necessarily to be in the front,but essentially with the task.
--------Mahatma Gandhi

Everything that exists suffers change-Incessant change is true of the infinitely small as well as of the infinitely great.
---------Dr S.Radhakrishnan

It is good to learn history,but it is better to make it.
--------Jawaharlal Nehru

When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps;when he says perhaps he means no;when he says no he is no diplomat.

To be good is noble,but to teach others how to be good is nobler.
-----Mark Twain

Perhaps it is better to be responsible and right than responsible and wrong.
--------Winston Churchill

Perhaps no place in any communist is totally democratic as the public library.The only entrance requirement is interest.
--------Lady Bird Johnson.

There is no greater penance than patience,no greater happiness than contentment,no greater evil than greed,no greater virtue than mercy.
--------Guru Amar Das

Defeat in due course comes in one way or another to everyone.So the question is not whether or not you experience defeat,but how you handle it.
--------Norman Vincent Peale

Every failure brings success a little nearer.
-------Resepal

It is impossible to arrive at the summit of the mountain without passing through rough and difficult paths.
--------Confucius

There is more joy in one desire conquered than in a thousand desires satisfied.
--------Buddha

The greater our knowledge increases,the greater our ignorance unfolds.
-------Kennedy

Knowledge without the moral foundation is meaningless.
-------Leo Tolstoy

It is statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to enter heaven.
--------Henry Wheeler Shaw

Fools follow after vanity.The wiseman keeps earnestness as his best jewel.
---------Buddha

True wisdom consists not only in seeing what is before your eyes,but in foreseeing what is to come.
--------Terence

A man who never wonders at anything never does anything wonderful.
--------John Edmund Huggai

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness,but thinking of strength.
-------Swami Vivekananda

Every one must work,work is the sweat of his brow whoever he may be,for this alone is the sense and purpose of life,happiness, and life's delights.
------Anton Chekhov

Be conscious first of thyself within,then think and act.
------Sri Aurobindo

It is not what you believe but what you think,speak and act that influences the being,either for good or for evil.


We cannot always choose our road in life,but what we can choose whether we walk along the shady or the sunny side of it.
---------G.A.Steel

A life which does not go into action is a failure.
-----Arnold J.Toynbee

Education is to the soul,what sculpture to a block of marble.
---------Addison

In the hour of adversity be not without hope for crystal rain falls from black clouds.


We have too many people who live without working,and we have altogether too many who work without living.
-------Charles R .Brown

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is the king.
-------Erasmus.

The two most engaging powers of an author,are ,to make new things familiar,and familiar things,new.
--------Samuel Johnson

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
------Isaac Goldberg

Short as life is,we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
--------Victor Hugo

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
-------John Stuart Mill

Who I am to believe

Two lawyers fought over the question involving the boundaries of certain land and the easementary rights thereto.”I lie on this side, your honour,” one lawyer remarked.”I lie on this side your honour,” intervened the other.The judge observed “If you lie on both sides,whom am i to believe”.

Be a Leader, Not a Boss

The boss drives his men
The leader inspires them.
The boss depends on authority
The leader on goodwill
The boss evokes fear
The leader radiates love.
The boss says “I”
The leader says “WE”.
The boss shows who is wrong
The leader shows what is wrong.
The boss knows how it is done
The leader shows how to do
The boss abuses men
The leader uses them
The boss demands respect
The leader commands respect
The boss makes work drudgery
The leader makes it fine

Laugh

“But you have to go school”

Nobody likes me in school,he complained.The teachers dont like me,the superintendent wants to transfer me,the bus drivers hate me,the school board wants me to drop out and the custodians have it in for me.I dont want to go school.
“But you have to go school “ countered his mother.You are healthy,you have a lot to learn,you have something to offer to others,you are leader.And besides you are 45 years old and you are the Principal.

That is a gift!

“I’m afraid, doctor, that my husband has some terrible menatl affliction.Sometimes i talk to him for hours and then discover that he hasnt heard a word.”
“Thats not affliction,madam,thats a gift.”

“Who is the printer?”

The professor was delivering his final lecture of the term,He said “You should devote all the intervening time to studying for the final exams.The question papers are already in the hands of the printers.Now is the time to study.Any questions?”
Silence prevailed for sometime.Then a voice from the rear enquired, “Who is the printer?”

An author dedicated a new book to his wife,without whose absence,he said, it could never have been written!

You would better go and study Geography!
A politician was makinh speech.He shouted,”Friends, I know no North,I know no East,I know no West,I know no South.” A boy in the crowd cried out,”You would better go and studdy Geography.”

Took twenty years to finish a sentence!
Ram: “I know an author who took ten years to write a book.”
Shyam:”Thats nothing! I know a man just released from the prison who took twenty years to finish a sentence.”

His hands in his own pockets!

The jovial lawyer,rising to address a gathering after dinner,noticed that in audience was another gentleman,who was well known as one of the foremost after dinner speakers in the nation.The lawyer,striking an informal pose,with his jacket open and his hands in his pockets,said, "How odd to see my friend George in the audience,demonstrating that a speaker can listen to someone else’ words on occasions.”And from the audience, George cried out, "And how odd to see my good friend Henry on the podium,demonstrating that a lawyer can have his hands in his own pockets on occasions.”

Cricket Amazing facts

1. The Indian bowler R.G. Nadkarni in a test Vs England bowled a record 21 consecutive maidens.

2. The first batsman to score 36 runs off a 6-ball over was Garfield Sobers at Swansea on 31st August 1968.The ball was recovered after the last hit from the road by aboy.At present it is kept for public view in the mueseum at Nottingham.


3. Don Bradman was the most recognizable figure in cricket.Bradman once got a letter from a fan who had just stuck a photograph of bradmans eyes on an envelope with the note
“Playing somewhere in England”.
Brief address but it reached .

The World is like Water

The world is like a water and the mind of man like milk.Milk will mix with water,if you put the two together.But turn the milk into curd by letting stand still in a pot, then churn it and have butter.Now if you keep the butter in water,it wont mix with it,but float unattached.
-----------Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa

Life is like the looking glass!

Life is like the looking glass that hangs upon the wall.It shows you short,if you are short,or tall if you are tall.If you look in it frowning,a frown you will see there too;but if you look with friendly smile,it smiles right back at you.