Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles M. Schulz

There is no greater burden than great potential.

Beth Moore

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love me, love my dog.

Benjamin Hoff

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."

Bill Withers

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Bill Watterson

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Edgar Lee Masters

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Edgar Lee Masters

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Edgar Guest

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Benjamin Franklin

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Benjamin Franklin

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth