Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Thought for the day

"The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his exertions, but by his every day conduct."
--Blaise Pascal--

"A careful person profits from personal experience, a wise man from the experience of others."
--Hitopdesh--

"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and true courage."
--Wendel Phillips--

"The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now & the way to be happy is to help others to be happy."
---Ingersoll---

Thought for the Day.
"There is no cure for birth and death, save, to enjoy the interval".
--George Santayana--

"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."
---Bacon--

Thought for the Day.
"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty.Anyone who keeps this ability never grows old."
--Franz Kafka---

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever. It's loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness".
--Keats--

"Anger is momentary madness; so control your passions or it will control you.
---Horace Epistles--

"Gather therefore the rose, whilst yet in prime,
For, soon comes age that will her pride deflower."
--Edmund Spencer---

"There are two things to aim in life; first, to get what you want, and after that,to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
--Joseph Cambell----


"All ambitions are lawful except those, which climb upward on the miseries or credulity of mankind."

--Joseph Conrad--

"Men in general judge more from appearance than from reality. All men have eyes but, few have the gift of penertration."
---Machiavelli---

"Subdue your appetite, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
--Charles Dickens--

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