Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.

Carl Sagan

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

Bryce Courtenay

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Catherine Helen Spence

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Chanakya

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

Chanakya

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

Chanakya

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Chanakya

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Chanakya

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Chanakya

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

Chanakya

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Chanakya

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Chanakya

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Chanakya

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Chanakya

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Chanakya

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

Chanakya

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Chanakya

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Chanakya

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Chanakya

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Chanakya

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Chanakya

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Chanakya

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Chanakya

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

Chanakya

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Chanakya

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

Chanakya

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Chanakya

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

Chanakya

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Chanakya

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

Chanakya

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.