Quotable Quotes Part II

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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Travel

We know nothing of tomorrow;
our business is to be good and happy today.
Sydney Smith


Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I chose.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Travel

I travel not to go anywhere but to go.
I travel for travel's sake.
The great affair is to move.
R.L.Stevenson

It is a pity that people travel in foreign countries;
It narrows their minds so much.
G.K. Chesterton

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Travel

He travels fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs
and returns home to find it.
George Moore.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Travel

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays,
because I shall have the prayers of the church,
to preserve all that travel by land or by water. :car: :fish2:
Jonathan Swift.

But dear Mr. Jonathan swift!
It is high-time we included the travel by air
which might not have existed at your time. lane:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Trouble

I have never met a man who has :nono:

given me as trouble as myself.

Dwight L. Moody


We have all enough strength :ballchain:

to bear other people's troubles. eace:

Duc De La Rochefoucauld

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truth

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth,
it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson

It is the nature of truth in general,
as of some ores in particular,
to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truth

The language of truth is
unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus Marcellinus

Truths too fine spun are subtle fooleries.
Henry G. Bohn.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao-Tse

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truth

Truth has many faces,
and any one of them alone is a lie.
Anonymous

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truth

"How often have i said to you that
when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A thing is not necessarily true
because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truth

Everyman has a right to utter what he thinks truth, :blabla:

and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. :boxing:

Samuel Johnson.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, :angel:

unless, of course, you are an

exceptionally good liar. :lie:
Jerome. K. Jerome.

 

[nannilam_balasubramanian]

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives:
where we focus our attention.


~ Greg Anderson

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The symbol "~" means "approximately equal to!!! :decision:

May I know what is the approximation involved here???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction,

but it is because fiction is
obliged to stick to possibilities; :decision:

truth isn't. :dizzy:

Mark Twain


By itself truth always wins. :thumb:
Lie needs an accomplice.
Epictetus

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Utopia

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic.
And dull to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving
as the sparks fly upwards.
David E. Lilienthal.

An acre of Middlesex is better
than a principality of Utopia.
T. B. Macaulay

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Vanity

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverb 26:12

Sure enough we see at least one such person everyday!!! :moony:

Vanity of vanities: all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity is not gender biased either!!!

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Psalm 39:5

So is every woman too!!! :high5:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Vanity

Vanity like murder will out
Hennah Cowley.

Sure it is hard to remain hidden and will eep:
stand out like a sore thumb sooner or later! :thumb:

The highest form of vanity is love of fame
George Santayana

How about the kind of fame
un-deserved but not un-reserved???

A knowledge of thyself will
preserve thee from vanity
Miguel De Cervantes.

O. K! But nothing can be more elusive
than knowing oneself correctly.
It is always accompanied by complexes...
either of superiority or of inferiority. :moony:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Victory

Be ashamed to die until you have won
some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann.

It is not enough to fight.
It is the spirit which we bring to the fight
that decides the issue,
It is Morale that wins the victory.
George Catlett Marshall.

 

[vgane]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato (427BC-347BC)​

 

[vgane]

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato (427BC-347BC)​

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[vgane]

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.



Plato (427BC-347BC)

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[vgane]

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato (427BC-347BC)
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[Visalakshi Ramani]

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato (427BC-347BC)​

Plato said it! :blabla:

We see it!! :tsk:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato (427BC-347BC)

Music elevates everything and everyone :angel:

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[Visalakshi Ramani]

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.



Plato (427BC-347BC)

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It holds good about writing too! :typing:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato (427BC-347BC)
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The Sound Of Music with a moral mission!!! :ear: