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      COLLECTION OF QUIPS AND QUOTABLE QUOTES

 

A great man is judged by the way he treats lesser men 
 

Being defeated is a temporary condition...Giving up is what makes it permanent 

Great people are ordinary people with extra-ordinary determination 

Tough times never last, tough people do 

To achieve great things we must not only work hard but also dream, not only plan but also believe 

Know what you want, AND GET IT....Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1993 

Do not wait for fortune to smile on you, prepare yourself with knowledge 

Success always comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to the timid 
 

Today we will do the difficult things, tomorrow the impossible ones, and the day after that we will perform miracles.
 

Ah...but a man's reach should exceed his grasp...or what's heaven for? 
 

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people
 

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today"
 

Of Alexander the Great: 

He died in Babylon in June 323 B.C. in the thirty third year of his life. Into thirteen years, he had compressed the energies of many lifetimes.
 
 
 

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"
 

"A smile goes a long way but you have to start it on its journey"
 

"A man is literally what he thinks"
 

"Since life is short, we need to make it broad. Since life is brief, we need to make it bright"
 

"Reach down and lift others up, its the best exercise you can get"
 

"More important than getting ahead of your rivals is getting along with them"
 

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things that we did not do that is inconsolable"
 

"Ideas, like fleas, jump from person to person but they don't bite everyone"
 

"The only way to live happily with people is to overlook their faults and admire their virtues"
 

"The eye of a friend is a good looking glass"
 

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men"
 

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything eveynight before you go to bed"
 

"Nothing increases the size of a fish like fishing all by yourself"
 

"The best way to meet trouble is to face it"
 

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it in the nest"
 

"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling"

ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL (who instituted the Nobel Prize) to his sister-in-law: 

What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

"This was a strong man", the journalist said, "The earth moved before him when he walked, men loved him and feared him, women trembled at the power in his loins, people sought his favours. And now there is no one here that remembers him. You were right...THE DEAD ARE ALONE" 

Why, that's a baby, Mister Ben. You know...They wets, they cries, they eats, they sleeps....Then they grows up and they breaks yo' heart. 
 

 

Every child in the world looks upon his mother and sees the most beautiful woman in the world, even though many mothers are not beautiful. Do you know why this is so ? The child looks with love and sees love returned. Love is what makes beauty. 

I want you to see what is real courage. Courage isn't a man with a gun in his hand. It is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. "You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving"

 

There is nothing in life that is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

To be good is noble, but to teach others to be good is nobler - and less trouble

Always do right: this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to others

Love me or hate me but spare me your indifference

To believe with certainty, we begin with doubting

There is always a danger for those who are afraid of it--- Bernard Shaw

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing them
 

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to nobody

A bad habit never disappears miraculously it is an undo - it yourself project

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Some people have all the luck and they are the ones who never depend on it

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere
 

The golden rule of friendship is to listen to others as you would have them listen to you.

If you want accounting of your worth, count your friends

Work keeps us from three evils:Boredom, Vice and Need.

You can't built a reputation on what you are going to do--- Henry Ford.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it---- Plato

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitude.

Laughter is a brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

God is a verb, not a noun.

You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don't mind being contradicted.

Write injuries in sand, kindness' in marble--- French proverb.

Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.

Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first ones to discover your mistakes.

I never think of future. It comes soon enough--- Albert Einstein.

Hold fast to your dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken winged bid,
That cannot fly.----L.Hughes.

Never fear shadows, They simply mean there is a light shining somewhere nearby.

What upsets me not that you lied me, but from now onwards I can no longer believe you.

Democracy: It is an exercise of counting the heads only, but counting the heads without counting what the head contains

Equipment needed by a politician:
It is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen---Sir Winston Churchill.

Never accept flattery as though it were a compliment and never treat a compliments though it were merely flattery.

To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer

A fool and his money are soon parted but nobody says him a fool until all his money is gone.

On Bachelors and Marriage

All a bachelor has to do to discover his hidden faults is to get married.

Any man who speaks without fear of contradiction is probably a bachelor.

It may be that bachelors make more mistakes than married men- but they don't make the big one.

A wife is a great comfort to a husband during the distressing times a bachelor never has.

Marriage is lot like the army, Everyone complains but you had be surprised at the large numbers that enroll.

Marriage is the condition most woman aspire to and most men submit to.

Behind every successful man is a woman who keeps reminding him that she knows who would have done better.

If you want a good year marry, if you want two refrain.---- German proverb.

By all means marry, if you get a good wife you will be happy; if you get a bad one, you will become philosopher --- Socrates

It is sad to realize that 20 years from now all today's beautiful woman will be five years older.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife could spend . A successful woman is one who can find such a man

When you are bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else