Thoughts

The Masters...

These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language was taken over by American slang and curse words and got boiled down to 4-letter words, not to mention waving middle fingers.
 
The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,' and he said, 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it.'
 
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' 'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.' 
 
 
'He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.' - Winston Churchill
 
'A modest little person, with much to be modest about.' - Winston Churchill
 
 'I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. 'Clarence Darrow
 
'He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.' - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). 

 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?' - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
 
'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.' - Moses Hadas
 
 
'I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it..' - Mark Twain
 
'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.' - Oscar Wilde 
 
'I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend....

 if you have one.' - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

 'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second.... if there is one.' - Winston Churchill, in response.
 
'I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.' - Stephen Bishop
 
'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.' - John Bright
 
'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.' - Irvin S. Cobb
 
'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.' - Samuel Johnson
 
'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.' - Paul Keating
 
 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.' Jack E. Leonard
 
 
 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.' - Thomas Brackett Reed
 
'In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.'  - Charles, Count Talleyrand
 
 
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?' - Mark Twain
 
'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.' - Mae West
 
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.'  - Oscar Wilde
 
'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts.. . for support rather than illumination. ' - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

 

Isn't it strange??

Isn't It Strange...??

 

• Isn’t it strange how a $100 dollar bill seems like such a large amount when you donate it to the temple, but such a small amount when you go shopping?
   
• Isn’t it strange how endless an hour seems when we are serving God, but how short it is when we watch a Football game or Cricket for 60 minutes?
   
• Isn’t it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you’re at the temple and how short they seem when you’re watching a good movie?
   
• Isn’t it strange that you can’t find things to say when you’re praying, but you have no trouble in thinking what to talk about with a friend?
   
• Isn’t it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of Bhagwad Gita, but how easy it is to read  100 pages of a popular novel?
   
• Isn’t it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or games, but they do whatever is possible to sit in the last row in the temple?
   
• Isn’t it strange how we need to know about an event for the temple 2-3 weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust it for other events at the last minute?
   
• Isn’t it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share it with others, but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip?
   
• Isn’t it strange how we believe everything that Magazines and Newspapers say but we question the words in the holy books like Ramayana?
   
• Isn’t it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but they don’t want to believe, do, or say anything to get there?
  
  

Once upon a time...

HOW TRUE

 

Once upon a time leadership mattered, now dealership rules the world.

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Once upon a time quality was craftsman's pride, now it is a departmental mess.

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Once upon a time mouse was an untouchable mammal, now it is handheld pest...

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Once upon a time wisdom was cultivated by wise people, now it is flashed on T-shirts.

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Once upon a time teacher taught and students learned, now teacher trade and students

consume.

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Once upon a time population was a problem, now it is a flourishing mass market.

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Once upon a time competition brought out the best, now it brings out the worst in people.

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Once upon a time there was a golden rule, now if you have gold, you rule.

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Once upon a time truth telling was good for your soul, now it is bad for promotion.

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Once upon a time success meant living by ideals, now it is about using above all principles.

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Once upon a time beauty was in the eye of the beholder, now it is booming business.

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Once upon a time the government was clean and s** was dirty, now one doesn't know.