Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Lots of Quotes :-)

The greatest gifts you can give someone are your time, your love, and your attention. - Anon

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. - Ronald Reagan

Love and a cough cannot be hid. - George Herbert

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? - Orhan Pamuk

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. - Robert Herrick

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. - Sophocles

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. - Maya Angelou

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. - Oswald Chambers

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. - Sue Monk Kidd

Who covets more is evermore a slave. - Robert Herrick

We grow small trying to be great. - E. Stanley Jones

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. - B. R. Ambedkar

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. - Robert Herrick

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices. - George Orwell

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? - William Lloyd Garrison

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger

When one teaches, two learn. - Robert Half

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it! - Craig Ferguson

Women can have it all, but not all at the same time and not without major sacrifices. - Dr Ijeoma Kola

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself. - Jeffrey Dahmer

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time. - Bob Dylan

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. - Pope Paul VI

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - Gertrude Stein

The wise strive to find unknown truth. The wiser realise truth, by its very nature, is unknown. - Sethuramiah Abburi

Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness, the old man escapes those ‘cold gradations of decay’ so distressing to himself and to his friends. - Sir William Osler

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


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I wish you all a safe and healthy Christmas and New Year.

Take Care

~Aparna~