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.

 

Coffee Cups

 

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other ' s cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn ' t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Don ' t let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.

 

How True

1. ATTITUDE IS WHAT  LIFE  IS  ALL  ABOUT.......  SOLDIER : SIR  WE   ARE SURROUNDED  FROM  ALL  SIDES  BY  ENEMIES ,  MAJOR : EXCELLENT !  WE CAN ATTACK IN ANY DIRECTION.
 
2. EVERY ONE  KNOWS  ABOUT  ALEXANDER  GRAHAM BELL  WHO  INVENTED  PHONES, BUT  HE  NEVER  MADE  A  CALL  TO  HIS  FAMILY.  BECAUSE  HIS  WIFE  AND DAUGHTER  WERE  DEAF.  THAT'S  LIFE "  LIVE  FOR  OTHERS " .
 
3.  THE   WORST  IN  LIFE  IS  "ATTACHMENT " IT   HURTS  WHEN  YOU  LOSE  IT. THE   BEST  THING  IN  LIFE  IS " LONELINESS "  BECAUSE  IT  TEACHES  YOU EVERYTHING  AND  WHEN  YOU  LOSE  IT.  YOU GET EVERYTHING.
 
4.  LIFE  IS  NOT  ABOUT  THE  PEOPLE  WHO  ACT  TRUE TO  YOUR  FACE ........ ITS  ABOUT  THE  PEOPLE  WHO  REMAIN  TRUE  BEHIND  YOUR  BACK .
 
5.  EGG  BROKEN  FROM  OUTSIDE  FORCE........A  LIFE ENDS  . IF  AN  EGG  BREAKS  FROM  WITHIN.......LIFE  BEGINS .GREAT   THINGS  ALWAYS  BEGAN  FROM   WITHIN .
 
6.  ITS  BETTER  TO  LOSE  YOUR  EGO  TO  THE  ONE  YOU   LOVE. THAN  TO  LOSE  THE   ONE  YOU  LOVE ....... BECAUSE  OF   EGO .
 
7.   A  RELATIONSHIP  DOESN'T  SHINE  BY  JUST  SHAKING  HANDS  ON  BEST  TIME. BUT  IT  BLOSSOMS  BY  HOLDING  FIRMLY  IN  CRITICAL  SITUATION  .
 
8. HEATED  GOLD  BECOMES  ORNAMENTS. BETTED  COPPER  BECOMES  WIRES. DEPLETED  STONE  BECOMES  STATUE.SO  THE  MORE PAIN  YOU  GET  IN  YOUR  LIFE  YOU  BECOME MORE  VALUABLE.
 
9. WHY  WE  HAVE  SO  MANY  TEMPLES  , IF  GOD  IS  EVERYWHERE ? A   WISE  MAN  SAID  : AIR   IS  EVERYWHERE , BUT   WE   STILL  NEED  A  FAN   TO  FEEL  IT.
 
10. TOLERATION  IS   THE  GREATEST  GIFT  OF  THE   MIND : IT  REQUIRES  THE  SAME  EFFORT  OF   THE  BRAIN  THAT  IT  TAKES TO  BALANCE  ONESELF  ON  A  BICYCLE ..........    
 
11.  WHEN  YOU  TRUST  SOMEONE  TRUST  HIM  COMPLETELY  WITHOUT  ANY  DOUBT................  AT  THE  END  YOU  WOULD  GET  ONE  OF   THE  TWO :  EITHER  A  LESSON  FOR  YOUR  LIFE  OR  A   VERY  GOOD  PERSON.

 

Thoughts from great personalities