Nice words

[talwan]

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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

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[talwan]

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

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[talwan]

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

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[talwan]

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

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[talwan]

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

[h=1]கனியாத பக்தி.[/h]
“ஹரியும் சிவனும் ஒண்ணு ; இதை
அறியாதவன் வாயில் மண்ணு !”
என்று கூறுவார் முன்னோர்கள்;
என்றாலும் சிலர் கேட்பதில்லை.

கனியாத பக்தி உடைய ஒருவன்,
தனியாக சிவபிரானை மட்டுமே
கனிவோடு தொழுது வந்ததான்;
பணியான் வேறொரு கடவுளை.

ஒரு நாள் சிவனே நேரில் தோன்றி
“ஒன்றே தெய்வம் என்றறியாயோ?”
என்ற போதிலும் மீண்டும் அவன்
எந்தக் கடவுளையும் வணங்கவில்லை.

சங்கர நாராயணனாய் வந்தபோதும்,
சங்கரனை மட்டுமே வணங்கினான்;
ஹரியை விடுத்து விட்டான் அவன்;
ஹரனாலும் மாற்ற முடியவில்லை.

தீவிர பக்தியும், மாறாத வெறுப்பும்,
தூண்டிவிட்டது மற்றவர்களையும்!
“விஷ்ணு! விஷ்ணு!” என்ற நாமத்தை
வெறுப்பேற்ற வேண்டிக் கூறலாயினர்.

காதில் அப்பெயர் விழாமல் இருக்க,
காதில் இரண்டு மணிகளை அணிந்து,
காதுகளை ஆட்டிச் சப்தம் செய்தவன்,
கண்டா கர்ணன் எனப் பெயர் பெற்றான்.

கண்டா கர்ணனைப் போன்றே பல
கண்மூடித்தனமான வேறு பக்தர்களும்
இறைவனிடம் காட்டும் வினோத பக்தியில்,
வெறுப்பே விருப்பையும்விட அதிகம்!

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.
Source my blog of Tamil poems with their English translations <visalramani.wordpress.com>

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

UNRIPE BHAKTI.

A man worshipped only SivA and hated the very name of VishnU. SivA himself told the man that both He and Hari are one and the same God. The man did not listen even to SivA.

Then SivA appeared as Sankara nArAynA. Even then the man worshipped only the half that was sankarA and ignored the half that was nArAyanA.

His vinoda bhakti amused everyone. Just to irritate him people kept calling out the name of VishnU. He wore two bells on his ears and kept ringing them so that he would not hear the name of VishnU.

His name now got changed to GantA Karnan.

There are many people in whose bkakti, hatred predominates the love for God. This kind of vinOda bhakti is unripe bhakti!

 

[talwan]

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

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[talwan]

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
Richard Branson

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[talwan]

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken

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[talwan]

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.
Mitt Romney

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[talwan]

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson

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[talwan]

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
Michael Jackson

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[renuka]

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken

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How true..wow finally a man who read a woman's mind!!​

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Must be because he himself was

"the nice man who wished that"

she was not married!

Their demands never seem end.

First women want to get married.:hug:

Then they want to be happily married. :kiss:

Then they want to be "more than" happily married

by desiring undue attention from another male-

wrecking his family also in that process!!!

The 'other woman' is always just round the corner

and it MIGHT be someone well trusted by the victim! :scared:

How true..wow finally a man who read a woman's mind!!​

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

[h=1]பூரண சரணாகதி.[/h]
ஒரு சிறந்த இறை பக்தனுக்கும்,
ஒரு சலவைத் தொழிலாளிக்கும்

வலுத்து விட்ட வாக்குவாதம்
வம்புச் சண்டையில் முடியவே;

துவைக்கலானான் அப்பக்தனையும்
துணிகளைப் போலவே வண்ணான்.

“கண்ணா! கண்ணா!” என்று பக்தன்
கதறுவது கேட்டதும் எழுந்தான்,

ஒய்யாரமாக வைகுண்டத்திலே
ஓய்வு எடுத்துக்கொண்டிருந்தவன்.

நான்கடிகள் நடந்து சென்றவன்,
மீண்டும் வந்து அமர்ந்துவிடவே,

நாயகனிடம் விவரம் கேட்டாள்,
நானிலம் வணங்கும் இலக்குமி.

“நானே செல்ல வேண்டியதில்லை;
தானே திருப்பி அடிக்கத் துணிந்தவன்,

தன்னையே காத்துக் கொள்வான்;
என்னை எதிர்பார்க்க மாட்டான்!”

சரணாகதியும் பலன்கள் தரும்
பூரணமாக இருந்தால் மட்டுமே.

போராடியவரை பாஞ்சாலிக்குமே
புடவைகள் தரவில்லையே கண்ணன்.

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

PARIPOORNA CHARANAAGATHI.


A quarrel broke out between a Krishna bakthA and a washer man.
At first it was a verbal fight. But very soon it became a fist fight.

Naturally the washer man was better equipped for the exchange of blows than the Krishna bhaktA.


Baktha called out for KrishnA’s help. God was about to help him, but He found that the bhakthA had started returning the blows of the washer man.


God sat back saying to Lakshmi dEvi that the bhaktA can take care of himself now. He does not come to help us, unless we surrender totally.

Even to Droupathi, He did not give the sari, until she stopped struggling and surrendered to Him totally.

[h=3][/h]

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

In this competitive World, everyone things that we should run along with others
or we must try to proceed to go ahead of some one. Life is certainly not a RACE
but it is a journey of UPs and DOWNs.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

[talwan]

Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher

 

[talwan]

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
Leo Duroche

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[talwan]

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
Henny Youngman

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[talwan]

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw

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[talwan]

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin Powell

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[talwan]

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy

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[talwan]

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
Brett Favre

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