Lessons of Life

Extracted from The Little Book of Lessons of Life - Edited by GYAN C. JAIN
Publisher: TECH PUBLICATIONS PTE LTD

1. 'Tis slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue out-venoms all the worms of Nile.
2. 'We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.'
3. Heredity is what a man believes in until his son begins to behave like a delinquent.
4. A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear, he'll feel worse when he feels better.
5. A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.
6. A book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.
7. A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you the company.
8. A bore is someone endowed with more patience than his listeners.
9. A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
10. A burnt child dreads the fire.
11. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
12. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
13. A cheerful frame of mind makes a tea kettle sing even when it has hot water upto its nose.
14. A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and good conscience.
15. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.
16. A conqueror, like a cannon ball, must go on; if he rebounds, his career is over.
17. A constant guest is never welcome.
18. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
19. A cynic man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
20. A day less or more at sea or ashore, we die - does it matter when?
21. A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
22. A dog is the only animal on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
23. A dose of poison can do its work only once, but a bad book can go on poisoning peoples' minds for any length of time.
24. A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
25. A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we will have to come back and settle the accound at last.
26. A dwarf may see farther than a giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
27. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
28. A feeble body weakens the mind.
29. A first-rate theory predicts; a second-rate theory forbids; and a third-rate theory explains after the event.
30. A fool always finds one more foolish to admire him.
31. A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.
32. A fool has one great advantage over a man of sense. He is always satisfied.
33. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
34. A friend in power is a friend lost.
35. A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
36. A friend is one who warns you.
37. A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
38. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
39. A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
40. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
41. A good face is a letter of recommendation
42. A good friend is my nearest relation.
43. A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
44. A good man does not argue. He who argues is not a good man.
45. A good man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
46. A good poor man is better than a good rich man because he has to resist more temptations.
47. A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.
48. A good story-teller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
49. A good teacher is one who is willing to learn and to communicate. In the words of Tagore he is a lamp and unless the lamp is burning other lamps cannot be lit.
50. A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of study for which he is responsible, he must himself be a master in the field and be in touch with the latest developments in his subject.
51. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
52. A great fear, when it is ill managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well guided fear produces religion.
53. A habit is a shirt made of iron.
54. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
55. A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
56. A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.
57. A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
58. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
59. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
60. A lawyer must first get on, then get honour, and then get honest.
61. A lawyer starts life giving five hundred dollars' worth of law for five dollars, and ends giving five dollars' worth of five hundred dollars.
62. A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.
63. A leader is a dealer in hope.
64. A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
65. A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
66. A liar is worse than a thief.
67. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
68. A lie on the throne is a lie still, and truth in a dungeon is truth still; and a lie on the throne is on the way to defeat, and truth in a dungeon is on the way to victory.
69. A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds, not by years.
70. A lifetime of happiness - no man alive could bear it.
71. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
72. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities in life.
73. A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men.
74. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
75. A little rule, a little sway,
    A sunbeam in a winter's day,
    Is all the proud and mighty have,
    Between the cradle and the grave.
76. A little season of love and laughter,
    Of light and life, and pleasure and pain,
    And a horror of outer darkness after,
    And dust returneth to dust again.
77. A long life may not be good life long enough. A lost battle one thinks one has lost.
78. A man convinced against his will,
    Is of the same opinion still.
79. A loveles life apart from thee,
    Were hopeless slavery.
    If kindly death will set me free,
    Why should I fear to die?
80. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world - everyone you meet is your mirror.
81. A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the sense and understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.
82. A man is God in ruins.
83. A man is as old as he's feeling.
84. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
85. A man is what he does.
86. A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
87. A man may not grow stronger by always eating as well as or wiser by always reading.
88. A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
89. A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
90. A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
91. A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
92. A man of courage is also full of faith.
93. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
94. A man should live with his superiors as he does with fire; not too near, lest it burns; nor too far off, lest it freezes.
95. A man that was, he is only brave five minutes longer.
96. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
97. A man who cannot make up his mind probably has no mind to make.
98. A man who is afraid will do anything. As fear is a close companion to falsehood.
99. A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
100. A man who is master of patience is master of everything else.
101. A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
102. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs which jolts by every pebble over which it runs.
103. A man's home is his castle.
104. A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him, his character is what he really is.
105. A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
106. A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.
107. The mind in its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
108. A minimum level of stress is healthy and necessary. Become aware of the excess stress and take steps to remove it.
109. Let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
110. A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.
111. A modest man never talks of himself.
112. A moment of time may make us unhappy for ever.
113. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man will not affront me, and no other can.
114. A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope for posterity.
115. A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it.
116. A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
117. A person becomes whole when he becomes three dimensional, simultaneously philosophical, religious and scientific.
118. A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but also by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
119. A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
120. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
121. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by letting off of water.
122. A philosopher is a person who says he doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on, because he eats both sides anyway.
123. A picture is a poem without words.
124. A picture is something between a thing and a thought.
125. A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
126. A promise should be given with caution and kept with care.
127. A proverb is much matter decorated into few words.
128. A proverb is the child of experience.
129. A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
130. A pun is the lowest form of humour when you don't think of it first.
131. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
132. A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
133. A reference dialogue on successful conversation. Adopt a face-to-face method. Be a good listener. Do not interuppt. Be responsive. Modulate the voice. Omit unfavourable references to the past. Give advice only when it is solicited. Avoid negative comparison. Applaud what you like and ignore what you don't. Guard your words and your words will guard you.
134. A retired man is doubly tired but receives half pay.
135. A room without books is a body without a soul.
136. A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
137. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows sharper with constant use.
138. A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
139. A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
140. A still tongue makes a wise head.
141. A stitch in time saves nine.
142. A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
143. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
     Its loveliness increases; it will never
     Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
     A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
     Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
144. A religion that requires persecution to sustain it; is of the devil's propagation.
145. A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart.
146. A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
147. A tree depicts divine plan, but God himself lives in a man.
148. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
149. A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.
150. A useless life is an early death.
151. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
152. A woman should be seen, not heard.
153. A wounded deer leaps highest.
154. A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
155. A young man married is a man that's marred.
156. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
157. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
158. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
159. Action speaks louder than words.
160. Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
161. Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
162. Adversity is the crucible in which friendship is tested.
163. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
164. Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.
165. Advice is a drug in the market, the supply always exceeds the demand.
166. Advice is like a shower, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and deeper it sinks into the mind.
167. After a storm comes a calm.
168. After all there is but one race - humanity.
169. After the first death, there is no other.
170. After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, until the day of his death.
171. After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
172. Against a foe I can myself defend, but Heaven protect me from a blundering friend!
173. Age is a quality of mind
     If you left your dreams behind,
     If hope is cold, if you no longer look ahead,
     If your ambition fires are dead,
     Then you have grown old my friend.
174. Ahimsa is a weapon of matchless potency. It is an attribute of the brave; it does not come within reach of the coward. It is no wooden or lifeless dogma, but a living and life-giving force. It is the special attribute of the soul.
175. Better go to bed supper less than rise in debt.
176. All I want is a room somewhere,
     Far away from the cold night air;
     With one enormous chair...
     Oh, wouldn't it be lovely?
177. All actions are judged by the motives prompting them.
178. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
179. All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
180. All are not saints that go to church.
181. All awakening in the world is only manifestation of your supreme intellectual power.
182. All eminent sages are as despotic as generals, as discourteous and lacking in delicacy as generals, because they know they are safe from punishment.
183. All flesh shall perish together and man shall turn unto dust.
184. All good things must come to an end.
185. All human activity is prompted by desire.
186. All human joys are swift of wing,
     For heaven doth so allot it;
     That when you get an easy thing,
     You feel you haven't got it.
187. All is well with him whose heart is turned towards the Truth. No disease, physical or mental can cause assault him.
188. All justice comes from God, He alone is its source.
189. All learning is in vain except to know Him, and to serve Him.
190. All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
191. All men should strive to learn before they die. What they are running from and to and why?
192. All neurotics, psychotics, criminals, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes are failures because they are lacking in social interest.
193. All of us are more or less the slaves of opinion.
194. All of us have sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
195. All philosophy is in two words - sustain and abstain.
196. All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
197. All progress is based upon a universal innate on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
     
198. All religions are ancient monuments to superstitions, ignorance, ferocity and modern religions are only ancient follies rejuvenated.
199. All religions are approaches to a single Truth.
200. All seek joy, but it is not found on earth.
201. All that is not prose passes for poetry.
202. All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it.
203. All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
204. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.
205. All historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
206. All the world's a mass of folly,
     Youth is gay, age melancholy;
     Youth is spending, age is thrifty,
     Mad at twenty, cold at fifty;
     Man is nought but folly's slave,
     From the cradle to the grave.
207. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
208. A simple life has its own reward.
209. All things are taken from us and become portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
210. All things bright and beautiful,
     All creatures great and small,
     All things wise and wonderful,
     The Lord God made them all.
211. All things come round to him who will but wait.
212. All things must change to something new, to something strange.
213. Al true and fruitful natural philosophy has a double scale of ladder, ascendant and descendant, ascending from experiment to the invention of causes, and descending from causes to the invention of new experiments.
214. All we in one long caravan are journeying since the world began; We know not wither, but we know with time all must go.
215. All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are trustees, not possessors.
216. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
217. All your falls, all your injuries, all your hurts, all your anxieties and troubles are due to some weakness within you.
218. Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
219. Alone, alone, all, all alone,
     Alone on a wide, wide sea!
     And never a saint took pity on,
     My soul in agony.
220. Ambition destroys its possessor.
221. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
222. Ambition gains control of little men more easily than of great, just as fire sets straw alight more easily in thatched cottages than in palaces.
     
223. An age builds up cities : an hour destroys them.
224. Ambition has but reward for all;
     A little power, a little fleeting fame,
     A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
225. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
226. An advantage of having a hard heart is that it will take a lot to break it.
227. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
228. An aimless life is always a miserable life.
229. An ally has to be watched just like an enemy.
230. An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
231. An empty mind is the devil's workshop.
232. An error gracefully acknowledgesd is a victory won.
233. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
234. An honest man is the noblest work of God.
235. An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.
236. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
237. An old man is twice a child.
238. An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
239. An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
240. An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
241. An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
242. An orator without judgement is a horse without a bridle.
243. An uncongenial kinsman is like a hunchback's hump - there it sticks and you can't cut it off, it is a regular burden.
244. An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
245. And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
246. And all the men and women merely players;
     They have their exits and their entrances;
     And he that strives to touch the stars;
     Oft stumbles at a straw.
247. And help us, this and every day, To live more nearly as we pray.
248. Anger begins in folly and ends in repentance.
249. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
250. He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of medicines.
251. Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
252. Hear much; speak little.
253. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing, it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
254. He that seeks trouble always finds it.
255. Anger without power is folly.
256. Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.
257. Another year! - another deadly blow!
     Another mighty empire overthrown!
     And we are left, or shall be left, alone.
258. Any departure, conscious or unconscious, fromt he laws of Nature is a lie.
259. Any one who tries to understand the money question goes crazy.
260. Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
261. Anything that does not grow, grows backwards and decay.
262. Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
263. Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
264. Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace, it must be kept by men.
265. Arms and money require good hands and brains to handle them.
266. As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.
267. As a rule man is a fool. When it's hot he wants it cool. When it's cool he wants it hot. Always wanting what is not.
268. As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it is cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches, whether they are wise or foolish.
269. As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
270. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods - They kill us for their sport.
271. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
272. As heat conserved is transmuted into energy, so anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
273. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be a world without end.
274. As one lamp lights another it does not grow less, so nobleness enkindles nobleness.
275. As long as a man earns money, his relations are attached to him. But when his aging body falters nearing the time of dissolution, none, not even his nearest kin, will care even to ask him how he feels.
276. As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
277. As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
278. As old wood is best to burn, old horses to ride, old books to read, and old wine to drink, so are old friends always most trusty to use.
279. As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
280. Ask a favour of an enemy and you may possibly make a friend; ask a favour of a friend and you will probably make an enemy.
281. Ask advice only of your equals.
282. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
283. Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
284. At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
285. At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a beginning.
286. Be practical and realistic when it comes to your finances.
287. At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
288. At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
289. Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
290. Awake my soul, and with the sun
     The daily state of duty run.
291. Avoid tame, colourless, hesitating, non-committal clothes. Avoid the pretentious, the exaggerated, the coy and the cute. Be sparing of the tried and true. Never sacrifice comfort to style. Dress in a way that comes naturally... choose the clothes you are drawn to naturally. You will wear them better, and more often, than those you talk yourself into because they seem practical or look well on somebody else.
292. Autumn into winter, winter into spring, spring into summer, summer into fall. So rolls the changing year, and so we change. Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
293. Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight;
     Make me a child again just for tonight.
294. Bad men live to eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink in order to live.
295. Be a lion at heart but do not forget the tact of a fox. Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
296. Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.
297. Be eager to light a candle rather than trust the darkness.
298. Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;
     Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long;
     And so make Life, and Death, and that for ever,
     One grand sweet song.
299. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
300. Be more eager for truth than for success.
301. Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
302. Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
303. Be noble in every thought and in every deed.
304. Be not a traitor in your thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts; and you shall surely succeed.
305. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
306. Be positive, nothing can be gained by being negative. Be rich to yourself.
307. Be selective in your battles; don't make every problem a war.
308. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
309. Be studious in your profession and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
310. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
311. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in it, be firm and constant.
312. Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
313. Be up-to-date, says the calendar.
     Be wise worldly, be not worldly wise.
314. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
315. Be your own judge and you will be happy.
316. Bear in mind that your success depends upon the everlasting and sanctified bull-doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
317. Beauty and folly are generally companions.
318. Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be friends.
319. Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
320. Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty!
321. Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you are poor and haven't any sense.
322. Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.
323. Beauty is the first present Nature gives to a woman, and the first it takes away.
324. Bees accomplish nothing except when they work together, and neither do men.
325. Beauty is the gift of God.
326. Behind an able man there are always other able men.
327. Behind each beautiful wild fur coat, there is an ugly story. It is brutal, bloody and barbaric. The animal is not killed - it is tortured. I don't think a fur coat is worth it with all the mercilessness in it.
328. Behind bad luck comes good luck.
329. Behold, the fool sayeth, "Put not all thine eggs in one basket" - which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention." But the wise man sayeth, "Put all your eggs in one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET."
330. Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
331. Behold, we know not anything;
     I can but trust that good shall fall,
     At last - far off - at last, to all,
     And every winter change to spring.
332. Being a philosopher, I have problem for every solution.
333. Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.
334. Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
335. Belonging to a particular religion creates an unreligious world.
336. Better a bad settlement than a successful law suit.
337. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
338. Better a lie that heals than truth that wounds.
339. Better by far you should forget and smile,
     Than that you should remember and be sad.
340. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
341. Better alone than in bad company.
342. Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
343. Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
344. Better be too credulous than too skeptical.
345. Better flatter a fool than fight him.
346. Better bend than break.
347. Better red than dead.
348. Better to complete a small task well, than do much imperfectly.
349. Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
350. Better with the learned dwell,
     Even though it be in hell,
     Than with the vulgar spirits roam,
     Palaces that gods call home.
351. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
352. Between eighteen and thirty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
353. Between optimist and pessimist,
     The difference is droll;
     The optimist sees the doughnut,
     The pessimist sees the hole.
354. Beware the fury of a patient man.
355. Beware of the inexperienced doctor, and the inexperienced barber.
356. Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
357. Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
358. Beware, beware! What goes forth from you, will come back to you.
359. Beware, throughout your life, don't judge people by their dress or address.
360. Beyond this vale of tears,
     There is a life above.
361. Birds are entangled by their feet and men by their tongues.
362. Birth and death are not in our hands, what is in our hands is to carry on with our work till illness or death stops it.
363. Birth, corpulation, and death;
     That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
364. Blessed are those who do not see,
     Death upon the family,
     Friend in trouble, stolen wife,
     Ruin of the nation's life.
365. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
366. Blessings never come in pairs, misfortunes never come alone.
367. Blessings on him that first invented sleep!
368. Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
     Books are gates to land of pleasure;
     Books are paths that upward lead;
     Books are friends, come, let us read.
369. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!
370. Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
371. Books and friends should be few but good.
372. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
373. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
374. Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
375. Bore: a guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary.
376. Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
377. Brain is an apparatus with which we think that we think.
378. Brave actions never want a trumpet.
     Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
     Who never to himself has said,
     This is my own, my native land!
379. But if I'm content with a little, enough is as good as a feast.
380. But the tender grace of a day that is dead,
     Will never come back to me.
381. But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or not - as fools or a fool alone.
382. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honour and glory and tears.
383. But when I tell him he hates flatterer,
     He says he does, being then most flattered.
384. Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expenses of you, the shareholder.
385. By law of nature, all men are equal.
386. By silence, I hear other men's imperfactions and conceal my own.
387. By the time a man realizes that his father was usually right, he has a son who says, "Father! you are wrong."
388. Candy
     Is dandy
     But liquor
     Is quicker.
389. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
390. Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
391. Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
     
392. Character is a by-product, it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
393. Character is a diamond which scratches every other stone.
394. Character is a long-standing habit.
395. Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never improverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
396. Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
397. Character is destiny.
398. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
399. Character is what you are in the dark.
400. Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment.
401. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
402. Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.
403. Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
404. Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
405. Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to a man; youth never.
406. Clothes don't make a person but it speaks for him.
407. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
408. Language is the dress of thought.
409. Come what may,
     Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
410. Common people do not pray, they only beg.
411. Commonsense is that uncommon degree what the world calls wisdom.
412. Commonsense is the collection of prejudices acquired from age eighteen.
413. Commonsense is the wick of the life.
414. Commonsense is very uncommon.
415. Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He posseses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
416. Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another, too often ending in the loss of both.
417. Compromise makes a good umbrella but a roof; it is a temporary expedient.
418. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
419. Confidence is... I will do it... I will do it... DO IT! Conscience does make cowards of us all.
420. Control circumstances, and do not allow them to control you.
421. Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the conversation.

Quotable Quotes from Reader's Digest

"What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff." - Paul Mccartney

"Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive." - BONO in USA Today

"I have missed more than 9000 shots. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed." - Michael Jordon

"Being a dad is the greatest, except for assembling things." - CONAN O'BRIEN in People

"The ageing process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson

"Drinking is the only thing you don't get better at the more you do it." - JR MOEHRINGER in The Tender Bar

"When kids hit one year old, it's lilke hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit." - Johnny Depp

"There are some things in life where it's better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them." - AL MICHAELS

"I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see." - PEGGY NOONAN in What I Saw at the Revolution

"I sing like a lady from an old black-and-white musical. But I love it." - Queen Latifah

"Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable." - Alex Rodriguez

"There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing it anyway." - MAX BURNETT on "Dateline"

"I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!" - AL ROKER in BJ's Journal

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - FERRIS BUELLER in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." - Mitch Albom

"Ask friends about the people and places that shaped them, and summer springs quickly when they tell their story: their first kiss, first beer, first job that changed everything." - NANCY GIBBS in Time

"I don't believe in stars. Except the ones you can look up and see." - Loretta Lynn

"You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary." - Michael J. Fox

"In a just and generous society you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential." - Barack Obama

"The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut." Little Richard

"It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism." - Charles Osgood

"Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups." - Cathy Gusiewite

"For marriage to be success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." - Catherine Zeta-Jones in InStyle

"Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note." - BERNIE BRILLSTEIN, The Little Stuff Matter Most

"There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance." - GEORGE FOREMAN in Guideposts

"The greatest dreams are always unrealistic." - WILL SMITH in Parade

"I'm better off not socialising. I make a better impression if I'm not around." - Christopher Walken

"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh." - Jay Leng

"Humour is always based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?" - Dick Clark

"Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been." - JIMMY BUFFETT, Barefoot Children in the Rain.

"Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart. Show me the person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag." - JULIA ROBERTS in Entertainment Weekly

"That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid." - MEGAN MULLALLY In Ladies' Home Journal

"If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby

"Part of what makes a human being is the imperfections. Like, you wouldn't give a robot my ears." - WILL SMITH in inTouch

"Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have." - JERRY SEINFELD in TV Guide

"One doesn't have a sense of humour. It has you." - Larry Gelbart

"If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing." - ED MCMAHON in TV Guide

"Life isn't all golf." - TIGER WOODS in ESPN: The Magazine

"What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son." - BEN STEIN on CNN

"Work is the least important thing and family is the most important." - Jerry Seinfeld in TV Guide

"I'm certainly not an expert, but Tim and I just celebrated 17 years together, which in Hollywood years I think is 45." - SUSAN SARADON in Chicago Sun-Times

"I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment, than the first time learn of my giggle." - SEAN PENN in O, the Oprah Magazine

"Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener." - Quoted by PAULA DEEN on the Food Network

"Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realise this as soon as they are born and start using sleep deprivation to break you." - Ray Romano

"I figure somewhere between kid number one and number seven, I must have learned a few things." - MEL GIBSON in McCall's





Extracted from Reader's Digest

50 Funniest One-Liners

Cupid's Arrow
"A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days." - Tim Allen

Cupid's Arrow Sharpened
"When I eventually met Mr Right, I had no idea that his first name was Always." - Rita Rudner

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think, in a deeper voice." - Bill Cosby

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest." - Roseanne Barr

"I always wanted to be the last guy on earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me." - Ronnie Shakes

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished." - Zsa Zsa Gabor


Financial Genius
"A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

"Money won't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy." - Spike Milligan

Unfathomable
"Imagine if there were no hypothetical situations." - John Mendoza

"I don't consider myself bald. I'm simply taller than my hair." - Thom Sharp

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy and the tallest guy in the National Basketball Association is Chinese." - Chris Rock

Odds-on Favourites
"This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a president, we get two choices. But when we have to select Miss America, we get 50." - Jay Leng

"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not." - Fran Lebowitz

It's a Zoo
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"Time's fun when you're having flies." - Kermit the Frog

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

"Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend." - Zenna Schaffer

Deadly Serious
"It's not that I'm afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

Miss Manners
"If you haven't got anything good to say about any one, come and sit by me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue." - Dorothy Parker

Women on the Edge
"I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them." - Bette Midler

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted." - Mae West

"Deep down, I'm pretty superficial." - Ava Gardner

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time." - Marilyn Monroe

Men on the Edge
"I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Now it's everywhere I want to be." - Scott Wood

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." - H.L. Mencken

"I drink to make other people interesting." - George Jean Nathan

Speed Traps
"Have you noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin

"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" - Robin Williams

Health Nuts
"I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." Henny Youngman

"You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish." - Jerry Seinfeld

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?" - Phyllis Diller

A Comedy of Heirs
"When you're eight years old, nothing is your business." - Lenny Bruce

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either." - Dick Cavett

"When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you've given birth." - Erma Bombeck

Fashion Plates
"Men who have pierced ears are better prepared fo marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewellery." - Rita Rudner

"If God meant us to be naked, he would have made our skin fit better." - Maureen Murphy

Keeping Score
"If a woman has to choose between catching a baseball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." - Dave Barry

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." - Martin Mull

"Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings." - George Will

"I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out." Rodney Dangerfield

Wisdumb
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say then don't say it." - Sam Levenson

Highly Questionable
"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" - Vince Lombardi

"What's another word for thesaurus?" - Steven Wright

"If convenience stores are open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, why do the doors have locks on them?" - Gallagher

In Sum...
"I really didn't say everything I said." - Yogi Berra


Extracted from Reader's Digest

From SMS

加油！

I made a cup of coffee specially for you.
There is no sugar, but don't worry,
the one who send this is sweet!


JUST FOR FUN

不管
天多高，
地多深，
铁多硬，
风多大，
尺多长，
河多宽，
酒多烈，
冰多冷，
火多热，
我只想告诉你，
这些都不关你的事。
做工吧！！


夜已深了...
但现在的你应该在睡觉吧，
如果不小心又吵到了你...
我想诚心的对你说声...
我...
是故意的...
晚安！ haha！！


If your life is in darkness, don't give up.
Just pray. But, after praying &
your life is still in darkness,
then don't be stupid...
go switch on the light lah!! Gd Nite~


HAPPY BIRTHDAY

a sweet & nice person like you...
Deserves a Sweet Kiss!
Muah!
Happy Buffday!!

From SMS

CHRISTMAS~~!!

No fanciful pictures and no touching words...
Just to wish you Merry Christmas before
the network get so jammed up.
Hope you will have a memorable day ahead.



HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

炮竹一响年初一
国泰民安春洋溢
富贵花开浓情意
喜气洋洋照大地
财神送钱转运气
恭喜发财人如意
祝你新年行大利



在这佳节到来之际，
请感受我的祝福。
祝您事事顺心，
天天开心，
新年如意。
Happy New Year!


我将新年祝福装进玻璃瓶，
愿我在乎的人都可以得到祝福。
於是瓶子飘呀飘...
如果你收到这封手机瓶中信，
你就是我最在乎的人，
祝新年快乐哦！
顺心如意！


中国有长城
马来西亚有槟城
新加坡有狮城
马六甲有古城
香港有郭富城
你家更了不起......
有灰尘
你大扫除了吗？


FRIENDSHIP

I opened my wallet and i find it empty,
reached in my pocket and found few coins,
searched my heart & I found you and our
Friendship...
then I realised how rich I am.


有树的地方必有我无限的思念，
有云的地方必有我的真心祝福，
有风的地方必有我的美丽笑容，
有沙的地方必有我俩友谊痕迹，
愿幸福美满常伴着你。


Memories is treasure no one can steal,
parting is heartache no one can heal,
Some will forget you when you are gone,
but I will remember you no matter how long!
Friends Forever!


朋友不只是交来谈笑风声，
而是分担烦恼与悲伤。
与你不能常见面，
但对这友谊却始终不变。
不常联络你，不代表忘了你，
而是把你放在心里。
朋友，我珍惜你。


在这美丽的星空下，有个寂寞的人
在思念远方的你，希望星星能
把我所有的心意连同思念传达给你
让你知道我很在乎你这个朋友...!


这世上，虽然没有永远分不开的朋友，
但却又永远的友谊。
无论十年后的你会在哪里，
还记不记得我，我都会永远
记得我们这段真挚的友情！


世间就如旅程，生命就如蜡烛
岁月就如弓箭，朋友就如过客
你我之间的友情就如一杯白开水
纯洁
坦诚
互助
永恒
珍惜...


友谊就像拼图一样
当一片丢失了，
那特别的一片永远
都无法取代，这拼图也不再完美
你就如一片拼图，
深深地埋藏在我心里。


痴心朋友心连心，
离山离水不离心，
真正友情值千金，
但千金难买真友情！
Friends Forever.
Take Care =)


Sweet candies are nice to eat
Sweet words are nice to say
BUT,
Sweet persons are hard to find.
Luckily, 'U' have found 'ME'!


Eventhough, we're far apart,
I know exactly where u r...
in Every second of everyday.
Right here in my Heart!


There are 6 Billion people around the world.
I don't know why I keep on msging you.
Maybe becoz...
5, 999, 999, 999
can't replace...
a single you c",)


Some joys are better expressed in silence, as
a smile holds more meaning then laughter
I was asked if I enjoyed meeting you in my life...
I juz smiled (",)


GOOD MORNING

A sweet HELLO
4 a sweet FRIEND
who deserves a very special place
in my HEART
Good Morning!


GOOD NIGHT

Good Night to you and may the stars
cast only true dreams that will not leave you blue


今晚 mail 你说 gd nite 让你
sweet dream sleep tite tite
然后帮你关掉 light
让你想我 all the nite


满天星空多美丽，圆圆月亮照光明
一句晚安送给你，愿你入梦睡安宁
Good Night


touch ur hearts..
close ur eyes..
make a wish..
say good nite..
sky so wide..
stars so bright..
off the light..
sleep tite tite..
* good nite *


Sometimes life gets so busy, I can't even say 'hi',
make call, or send you message.
But it doesn't mean I forgot...
Cos in my heart...
I keep you! Gd Nite!


The sky is dark, the nite is cold, hold your blanket tite.
May you have the sweetest dream tonite.


不管你心情多坏
我在你身旁陪你
不管你心情多忧
我和你一起度过
不管发生什么事
我决不会离开你
不管距离有多远
我们的友情不变
不管夜色有多黑
我要跟你说晚安

暗恋你

世界最遥远的距离，
不是生与死的距离，
不是天各一方，
而是我就在你面前，
你却不知道我爱你。

- 《荷包里的单人床》 张小娴

Love is being happy just knowing that she's happy... but that isn't so easy.
- From by Charles M. Schulz

Instructions For Life

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
   • Respect for self
   • Respect for others and
   • Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.