Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Robin Williams: English policemen
“In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime. the police will say, “Stop, or I’ll stay stop again.” ~Robin Williams.
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Robin Williams: Spark of madness
“You’re only given one spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” ~Robin Williams.
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Edmund Hillary: Conquer…
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Related articles Sir Edmund Hillary (pavloskapralos.wordpress.com) Day 7 (Part II) – Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Museum, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. (alwaystravelicious.com) “The greatest mountain we need to climb lies in our our own minds”. It’s not…
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Miguel De Cervantes: Short sentences, long experiences
Embed from Getty Images “Short sentences drawn from long experiences.” ~Cervantes
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George Bernard Shaw: Spice
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” ~George Bernard Shaw. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463972491
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Priyanka Chopra: Once that bell rings…
“Once that bell rings, you’re on your own—just you and your belief. It’s hard to defend when someone’s constantly beating you black and blue. And I’m talking about all kinds of knocks—physical, mental and emotional.” ~Priyanka Chopra taking about “Lessons From The Ring” absorbed while enacting the title role “Mary Kom.”
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Paul Samuelson: Investing
“Investing should be dull…like watching watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take some money that you are happy to lose and go to Las Vegas.” ~Paul Samuelson. Embed from Getty Images
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Zachary Scott: Regret
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ” ~Zachary Scott. Embed from Getty Images
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George Bernard Shaw: Critic
“A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.” ~George Bernard Shaw http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/186641212
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Ralph W. Sockman: Humility
“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ” ~Ralph W. Sockman
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Lenny Bruce: Dirty
“You can’t do anything with anybody’s body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person — you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.” —Lenny Bruce, comedian and social critic (1925-1966) Embed from Getty Images
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Henry Taylor: Conscience
“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. ” ~Henry Taylor Embed from Getty Images
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J K Rowling: Voices
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” ~J K Rowling. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/98263831
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Anonymous: Slights
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/126154712 “If slighted, slight the slight, and love the slighter.” ~Anonymous http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/126161597
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John Vanbrugh: Slighted woman
A slighted woman knows no bounds. ~John Vanbrugh Embed from Getty Images
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Antipathy
“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it – to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Hosea Ballou: Patient inquiry
“Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.” Hosea Ballou
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Mickey Rooney: Marriage licence
“I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern. ” —Mickey Rooney Embed from Getty Images
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Harvey Fierstein: Define yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~Harvey Fierstein Embed from Getty Images
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Bernard Levin: Electoral decisions
“Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ” Bernard Levin
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William Bennet Munro: Resentment, not appreciation
“People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.” ~William Bennet Munro
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Unknown: Mud and stars
Embed from Getty Images “Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.” ~Unknown.
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Jonathan Swift: Writer's privilege
“There are certain common Privileges of a Writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.” ~Jonathan Swift.
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Great advances
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. “ —Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895) Embed from Getty Images
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Perfection
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. “ —Antoine de Saint-Exupery Embed from Getty Images
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M H Mahon: Daily exercise
“Two hours’ daily exercise… will be enough to keep a hack fit for his work.” ~M H Mahon.
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J D Salinger: Paranoia
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” ~J D Salinger.
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George Burns: One hundred
Embed from Getty Images “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” ~George Burns.
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Tallulah Bankhead: Night watchman
“It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work-the night watchman.” –Tallulah Bankhead Embed from Getty Images
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Irish Proverb: Shelter of each other
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” ~Irish proverb.
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James Thurber: Loaf-a-bout
“It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.” ~James Thurber. Embed from Getty Images
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Oscar Wilde: Indiscreet answers
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/79044943 “Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.” ~Oscar Wilde.
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Ian K. Smith: Men and successful women
“Men don’t avoid successful women because they’re jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.” ~Ian K. Smith.
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Samuel Johnson: Reason and vigilance
“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.” ~Samuel Johnson,English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784 Embed from Getty Images
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Mervyn Peake: Clever
“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.” ~Mervyn Peake. Embed from Getty Images
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Edward Gibbon: History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” ~Edward Gibbon. Embed from Getty Images
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Winston Churchill: Crocodile
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ~Winston Churchill. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/108093937
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Confucius: Diamonds and pebbles
Embed from Getty Images “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” ~Confucius
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Vijay Seshadri: Impossibility
“The soul, like the square root of minus 1, is an impossibility that has its uses.” ~Vijay Seshadri.
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Thomas Jefferson: Morality code
“I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. ” ~Thomas Jefferson
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Malcolm Forbes: Happiness
“When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness. ” Malcolm Forbes Embed from Getty Images
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Sue Atchley Ebaugh: Greatest gift
“The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence.” ~Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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Kara Goucher: Running
“Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. The best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.” ~Kara Goucher Embed from Getty Images
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Unknown: Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
Embed from Getty Images “Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” Unknown Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Time
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/167160315
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Cullen Hightower: Worth and success
“The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ” ~Cullen Hightower Embed from Getty Images
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Ambrose Pierce: Fidelity
“Fidelity, n: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.” ~Ambrose Bierce.
