Thoughts Text – Set 6 – 2017

#1

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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#2

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

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#3

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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#4

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death’s best weapons.

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#5

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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#6

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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#7

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

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#8

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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#9

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

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#10

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

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#11

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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#12

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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#13

The greatest prayer is patience.

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#14

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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#15

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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#16

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

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#17

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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#18

The man who says he’s too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

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#19

The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.

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#20

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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#21

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

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#22

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

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#23

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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#24

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

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#25

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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#26

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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#27

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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#28

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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#29

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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#30

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

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#31

The present is never a happy state to any being

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#32

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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#33

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

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#34

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

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#35

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

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#36

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

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#37

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don’t know what to do.

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#38

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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#39

The trouble with some of these ‘Mind’ drugs is that they’re no substitute for what’s not there.

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#40

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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#41

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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#42

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

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#43

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

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#44

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

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#45

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

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#46

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

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#47

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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#48

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

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#49

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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#50

The World is but, a school of inquiry.