Quotes of the Day -30-Apr-2005

By Gandhi ji

1. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and
everything will be well.
2. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

3. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

4. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

5. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

6. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.

7. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

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By William Shakespeare

1.Cowards die many times before thei,The valiant never taste of death but once.

2.Glory is like a circle in the water,Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,Till by broad spreading it disperses to
naught.

Quotations: Love

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."-Miguel de Unamuno

"I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soin Whining poetry."-John Donne

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."-John Donne

"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."-???

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."-Voltaire

"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them."-Mother Teresa

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."-The Bible

"Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause."-Benedict Spinoza

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."-Rita Rudner

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

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."-Nora Roberts

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."-Ogden Nash

"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"-???

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."-Euripides

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."-Anna Louise Strong

"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."-Dinah Shore

Quotations: God/Religion

***** "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."-Buddha

***** "Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith."-Thomas Jefferson

***** "'And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways,' Yossarian continued. 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?'"-Joseph Heller, Catch22

***** "The Vision of Christ that thou dost see,Is my vision's greatest enemy.Thine is the Friend of all Mankind,Mine speaks in Parables to the blind.Thine loves the same world that mine hates,Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates."-William Blake

***** "The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science --or any honest intellectual inquiry."-Stephen J. Gould

***** "If God created flawed beings, how then can He go on to blame them for their flaws?"-James Halloran

***** "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."-Robert Frost

***** "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."-Friedrich Nietzsche

***** "Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not."-Nikita Ivanovich Panin

***** "If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment."-Voltaire

***** "An honest god is the noblest work of man."-Robert G. Ingersoll

***** "Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million."-Mark Twain

***** "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."-Voltaire

***** "Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction."-Blaise Pascal

***** "Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."-Mohammed Neguib

***** "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."-Arthur Shopenhauer

**** "What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity."-Friedrich Nietzsche

***** "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven."-William Shakespeare

***** "To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer."-Saddi

***** "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."-Thomas Paine

***** "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."-George Bernard Shaw

***** "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."-Thomas Jefferson

***** "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."-Galileo Galilei

***** "Faith: not wanting to know what is true."-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

***** "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."-Reinhold Niebuhr

***** "Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God."-Jean Rostand

***** "If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can."-Norman Mailer

***** "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."-John Morley

***** "Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."-Mark Twain

Quotations: Humorous

***** "To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad."-Jack Handey
***** "I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye."-Jack Handey

***** "If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward."-Jack Handey

***** "I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."-Jack Handey

***** "One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said. 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."-Jack Handey

***** "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."-Douglas Adams
***** "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."-Albert Einstein

***** "The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."-George Bernard Shaw

***** "The Soviet propaganda ministry ordered 10 million condoms from an American manufacturer, all 16" long and 3" in diameter. The American manufacturer filled the order, sending the merchandise in boxes marked 'medium.'"-???

***** "People don't go there anymore. It's too crowded."-Yogi Bera

***** "I want to die sleeping peacefully, - like my grandma; not screaming with horror, - like those, who were as passangers in her car."-???

***** "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."-Winston Churchill

***** "I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."-Jack Handey

***** "The supreme irony of life is hardly anyone ever gets out of it alive."-Robert Heinlein

***** "I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck."-???

***** "Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."-Woody Allen

***** "Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."-Fran Lebowitz

***** "If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"-Art Hoppe

***** "There is no clearer manifestation of pure evil than teachers giving assignments over holiday breaks."-James Halloran

***** "Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done."-Jack Handey

***** "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."-Jack Handey

***** "As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!"-Jack Handey

***** "I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality."-Jack Handey
***** "Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick."-Jack Handey

***** "The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."-Jack Handey
***** "Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."-Jack Handey

Quotations: Wisdom

***** "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."-H. Jackson Browne

***** "People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated."-John Kenneth Galbraith

***** "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."-J. C. Watts

***** "Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible."-Linus Pauling

***** "Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."-James Harvey Robinson

***** "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."-Bertrand Russell

***** "What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish."-Friedrich Nietzsche

***** "Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger."-Friedrich Nietzsche

***** "A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that cetainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."-Friedrich Nietzsche
***** "All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts."-William Shakespeare

***** "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."-Franklin D. Roosevelt

***** "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."-Thomas Carlyle

***** "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"-Abraham Lincoln

***** "To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."-Henri Poincaré

***** "Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."-Isaac Newton

***** "When the passions become masters, they are vices."-Blaise Pascal

***** "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."-Thomas Jefferson

***** "I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."-J. B. S. Haldane

***** "There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth."-Niels Bohr

***** "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."-Anatole France

Quotations: Inspirational

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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as
God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to
bind up the nation's wounds."

-Abraham Lincoln



*****

"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always
remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate
them. And then you destroy yourself."

-Richard M. Nixon



*****

"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness
comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some
disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest
valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."

-Richard M. Nixon



*****

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful."

-Herman Cain



*****

"Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck,
incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, buy
you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way."

-David Whyte



*****

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost



*****

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings
total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and
through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

-Frank Herbert



*****

"If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for
what he could be, he will become what he could be."

-???



*****

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you
have, which, once you've got it, you might be smart enough to see it is what you
would have wanted had you known."

-Garrison Keillor



*****

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man."

-George Bernard Shaw



*****

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never
were and ask why not."

-George Bernard Shaw



*****

"A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he
progresses in all things by making a fool of himself."

-George Bernard Shaw



*****

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the
betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to
leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is to have succeeded."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson



*****

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

-Albert Einstein



*****

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears
a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured
or far away."

-Henry David Thoreau



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"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for."

-John A. Shedd