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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject:

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

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srividyaa · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject:

Just living is not enough.  One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  ~Hans Christian Anderson

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."  ~Erma Bombeck

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.  ~Robert Byrne

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.  ~Chinese Proverb

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.  ~Elwyn Brooks White

Life is simple, its just not easy.  ~Author Unknown

A life without cause is a life without effect.  ~Barbarella

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you're alive, it isn't.  ~Richard Bach

Life's not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.  ~Terri Guillemets

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.  ~Jack Handey

Life is a foreign language:  all men mispronounce it.  ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.  ~Kathy Norris

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  ~Emily Dickinson

Yes, I will try to be.  Because I believe that not being is arrogant.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject:

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
Baroness Orczy

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Vittorio Alfieri

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Robert Gould Shaw

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Sorry My mind is full of vengence whatever i think my blood boil at the hypocracy of ther society on a lame man
karthik iyer

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:21 am Post subject:

Anger Quotes
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Bede Jarrett

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:13 am Post subject:

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 9:34 am Post subject:

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:46 pm Post subject:

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The present is a point just passed.
David Russell

The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject:

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mohandas Gandhi

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject:

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:30 am Post subject:

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:04 am Post subject:

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:41 am Post subject:

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Corey

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

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srividyaa · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject:

Napoleon........
"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people,
But because of the silence of good people!"

Einstein.........
"I am thankful to all those who said NO to me
Its Because of them I did it myself..."

Abraham Lincoln.........
"If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in
the world"

Shakespeare..........
"Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow!
But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It".

Willian Arthur.........
"Opportunities Are Like Sunrises, If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them".

Shakespeare.....
"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because You May Win The Game But The
Risk Is That You Will Surely Loose The Person For Life Time".

Hitler.....
"When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You,
But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesnt Follow You."

Shakespeare.............
"Coin Always Makes Sound But The Currency Notes Are Always Silent.
So When Your Value Increases Keep Yourself Calm Silent"

John Keats........
"It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone"

Saints are not always saints; sinners are not always sinners.

Kr_iyer · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject:

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Linda Ellerbee

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

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Kr_iyer · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:37 pm Post subject:

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
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