Quote of the dayhttp://mohanjith.net/#quoteOfDayQuote of the dayen-ushttp://mohanjith.net/#quoteOfDayhttp://mohanjith.net/images/logo4.gifQuote of the dayQuote of the dayCopyright 2006, S.H.Mohanjith.moha@mohanjith.netHarangue, n.: A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/31/#quoteOfDayTue, 31 Aug 2010 00:44:09 PDTAmbrose BierceWriting ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfashttp://mohanjith.net/2010/08/26/#quoteOfDayThu, 26 Aug 2010 01:37:21 PDTWilla CatherA man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/24/#quoteOfDayTue, 24 Aug 2010 00:11:41 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonThe soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/23/#quoteOfDayMon, 23 Aug 2010 00:36:25 PDTCharlotte BronteWhich form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/22/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Aug 2010 00:08:53 PDTLewis CarrollOne thing alone not even God can do, To make undone whatever hath been done.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/21/#quoteOfDaySat, 21 Aug 2010 01:08:21 PDTAristotleDo you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/19/#quoteOfDayThu, 19 Aug 2010 00:20:28 PDTBram StokerI try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/17/#quoteOfDayTue, 17 Aug 2010 00:28:33 PDTCharlotte BronteNo mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/16/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Aug 2010 00:27:37 PDTCharlotte BronteHang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumbhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/08/15/#quoteOfDaySun, 15 Aug 2010 00:03:05 PDTJoseph ConradIt is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/13/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Aug 2010 00:23:32 PDTJoseph ConradA man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Aug 2010 00:32:19 PDTFrancis BaconAs in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/08/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Aug 2010 00:56:56 PDTJoseph ConradNo one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 07 Aug 2010 00:34:29 PDTAristotleHypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/06/#quoteOfDayFri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:48 PDTJohn MiltonThere is only one thing...that I dislike in sleep; 'tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, andhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/08/04/#quoteOfDayWed, 04 Aug 2010 02:16:14 PDTMiguel de CervantesQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/02/#quoteOfDayMon, 02 Aug 2010 00:04:13 PDTGeorge EliotA man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye placed in the back of his head.http://mohanjith.net/2010/08/01/#quoteOfDaySun, 01 Aug 2010 00:53:26 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeBigot, n.: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/31/#quoteOfDaySat, 31 Jul 2010 00:29:32 PDTAmbrose BierceIt is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/30/#quoteOfDayFri, 30 Jul 2010 00:01:08 PDTMiguel de CervantesHe serves me most who serves his country best.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/27/#quoteOfDayTue, 27 Jul 2010 00:03:32 PDTHomerSo she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/25/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Jul 2010 01:17:00 PDTNathaniel HawthorneReal strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magichttp://mohanjith.net/2010/07/24/#quoteOfDaySat, 24 Jul 2010 00:07:02 PDTHerman MelvillePlagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/23/#quoteOfDayFri, 23 Jul 2010 00:43:15 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeGrace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,In every gesture dignity and love.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/22/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 Jul 2010 01:13:23 PDTJohn MiltonFor whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/21/#quoteOfDayWed, 21 Jul 2010 00:20:24 PDTHerman MelvilleAn unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable womanhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/07/20/#quoteOfDayTue, 20 Jul 2010 00:28:02 PDTNathaniel HawthorneAnd yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Strangerhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/07/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Jul 2010 02:22:18 PDTHerman MelvilleNobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/17/#quoteOfDaySat, 17 Jul 2010 00:20:18 PDTNathaniel HawthorneThe page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/16/#quoteOfDayFri, 16 Jul 2010 01:05:41 PDTNathaniel HawthorneReproach is infinite, and knows no end.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Jul 2010 01:13:19 PDTHomerA smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/14/#quoteOfDayWed, 14 Jul 2010 00:25:35 PDTHerman MelvilleOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/10/#quoteOfDaySat, 10 Jul 2010 00:19:47 PDTNathaniel HawthorneOf all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-househttp://mohanjith.net/2010/07/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Jul 2010 00:52:45 PDTHerman MelvilleLook now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of thttp://mohanjith.net/2010/07/06/#quoteOfDayTue, 06 Jul 2010 02:48:00 PDTHomerIn her face excuseCame prologue, and apology too prompt.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/05/#quoteOfDayMon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:06 PDTJohn MiltonEvery individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/04/#quoteOfDaySun, 04 Jul 2010 00:34:32 PDTNathaniel HawthorneA good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/03/#quoteOfDaySat, 03 Jul 2010 00:42:37 PDTJohn MiltonThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.http://mohanjith.net/2010/07/02/#quoteOfDayFri, 02 Jul 2010 00:32:52 PDTHomerDo not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/30/#quoteOfDayWed, 30 Jun 2010 00:42:32 PDTSophoclesA man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 28 Jun 2010 01:57:23 PDTFrancis BaconAll art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/27/#quoteOfDaySun, 27 Jun 2010 01:37:16 PDTAristotleFather asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 Jun 2010 00:39:21 PDTLouisa May AlcottIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/25/#quoteOfDayFri, 25 Jun 2010 01:56:35 PDTJoseph ConradWho has words at the right moment?http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/24/#quoteOfDayThu, 24 Jun 2010 00:24:40 PDTCharlotte BronteIn a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 22 Jun 2010 00:05:02 PDTSophoclesWhat do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 Jun 2010 02:21:20 PDTLouisa May AlcottTerror made me cruel.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/20/#quoteOfDaySun, 20 Jun 2010 00:09:28 PDTEmily BronteThey can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/19/#quoteOfDaySat, 19 Jun 2010 01:46:44 PDTMiguel de CervantesChildren are the anchors that hold a mother to life.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/18/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 Jun 2010 00:22:01 PDTSophoclesThe Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or vihttp://mohanjith.net/2010/06/17/#quoteOfDayThu, 17 Jun 2010 00:57:01 PDTAristotleThey talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/16/#quoteOfDayWed, 16 Jun 2010 00:30:12 PDTJoseph ConradA word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/14/#quoteOfDayMon, 14 Jun 2010 00:58:59 PDTSophoclesThere is a weird power in a spoken word…And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 13 Jun 2010 01:41:46 PDTJoseph ConradHow could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, whhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/06/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 Jun 2010 00:33:03 PDTGeorge EliotHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/11/#quoteOfDayFri, 11 Jun 2010 00:34:09 PDTAristotleConsider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 10 Jun 2010 00:01:29 PDTAristotleTo have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/09/#quoteOfDayWed, 09 Jun 2010 00:07:55 PDTGeorge EliotEvery temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/07/#quoteOfDayMon, 07 Jun 2010 10:54:08 PDTJohn Quincy AdamsWhen several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, orhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/06/06/#quoteOfDaySun, 06 Jun 2010 01:02:27 PDTAristotleNumberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/04/#quoteOfDayFri, 04 Jun 2010 00:52:47 PDTSophoclesIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 Jun 2010 00:48:33 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawLife is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/02/#quoteOfDayWed, 02 Jun 2010 00:27:11 PDTGeorge EliotHappiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.http://mohanjith.net/2010/06/01/#quoteOfDayTue, 01 Jun 2010 00:28:18 PDTAlexandre DumasLogic, n.: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/30/#quoteOfDaySun, 30 May 2010 00:44:03 PDTAmbrose BierceA little integrity is better than any career.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/29/#quoteOfDaySat, 29 May 2010 01:56:39 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/28/#quoteOfDayFri, 28 May 2010 01:24:46 PDTH.G. WellsWho knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcashttp://mohanjith.net/2010/05/27/#quoteOfDayThu, 27 May 2010 01:16:46 PDTJoseph ConradA great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/26/#quoteOfDayWed, 26 May 2010 00:50:18 PDTAristotlePotable, n.: Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable onhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/05/25/#quoteOfDayTue, 25 May 2010 00:07:32 PDTAmbrose BierceAll good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 May 2010 01:01:19 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonI like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enoughttp://mohanjith.net/2010/05/23/#quoteOfDaySun, 23 May 2010 01:55:26 PDTGeorge EliotIt is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/22/#quoteOfDaySat, 22 May 2010 03:16:10 PDTAristotleGrief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/21/#quoteOfDayFri, 21 May 2010 00:12:11 PDTSophoclesWar loves to seek its victims in the young.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/20/#quoteOfDayThu, 20 May 2010 00:24:17 PDTSophoclesA common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/19/#quoteOfDayWed, 19 May 2010 00:32:46 PDTAristotleBut for tradition, we walk evermore to higher paths by brightening reason's lamp.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/18/#quoteOfDayTue, 18 May 2010 00:11:38 PDTGeorge EliotSpare your breath to cool your porridge.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 May 2010 01:05:28 PDTMiguel de CervantesI have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 15 May 2010 02:02:17 PDTGeorge EliotI like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a rhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/05/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 May 2010 00:57:41 PDTLouisa May AlcottA state is not a state if it belongs to one man.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 May 2010 00:14:01 PDTSophoclesGive the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/11/#quoteOfDayTue, 11 May 2010 00:07:35 PDTWilla CatherIll-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/10/#quoteOfDayMon, 10 May 2010 00:20:38 PDTMiguel de CervantesHe had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/06/#quoteOfDayThu, 06 May 2010 00:25:07 PDTEdith WhartonIt takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/05/#quoteOfDayWed, 05 May 2010 00:31:32 PDTLouisa May AlcottIn reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that it was not once all contained inhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/05/04/#quoteOfDayTue, 04 May 2010 00:37:41 PDTWilla CatherWould not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/03/#quoteOfDayMon, 03 May 2010 01:20:13 PDTGeorge EliotThe brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.http://mohanjith.net/2010/05/01/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 May 2010 00:46:37 PDTMiguel de CervantesCriticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/30/#quoteOfDayFri, 30 Apr 2010 00:14:03 PDTJoseph ConradMost successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world willhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/04/26/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:19:51 PDTAgatha ChristieToo much mercy...often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first anhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/04/25/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Apr 2010 00:27:55 PDTAgatha ChristieThere is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal hhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/04/22/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 Apr 2010 01:45:52 PDTAgatha ChristieEvil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/21/#quoteOfDayWed, 21 Apr 2010 01:14:06 PDTAgatha ChristieIn order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Apr 2010 01:58:44 PDTRene DescartesThere are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds—not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but—a hatred of all injury.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/18/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Apr 2010 02:13:05 PDTGeorge EliotAfter all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/17/#quoteOfDaySat, 17 Apr 2010 01:00:20 PDTEdith Wharton"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly: "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a dhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/04/16/#quoteOfDayFri, 16 Apr 2010 01:59:40 PDTLewis CarrollA toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Apr 2010 01:15:56 PDTGeorge EliotThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/11/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Apr 2010 00:19:07 PDTGeorge EliotA cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/10/#quoteOfDaySat, 10 Apr 2010 00:09:42 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonUgliness, n.: A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/09/#quoteOfDayFri, 09 Apr 2010 00:57:26 PDTAmbrose BierceThere's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/08/#quoteOfDayThu, 08 Apr 2010 01:36:24 PDTAmbrose BierceThe good befriend themselves.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Apr 2010 00:08:14 PDTSophoclesI prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/06/#quoteOfDayTue, 06 Apr 2010 00:13:36 PDTAlexandre DumasIn trouble to be troubled,Is to have your trouble doubled.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/05/#quoteOfDayMon, 05 Apr 2010 00:32:39 PDTDaniel DefoeShe was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.http://mohanjith.net/2010/04/02/#quoteOfDayFri, 02 Apr 2010 00:27:50 PDTGeorge EliotA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consihttp://mohanjith.net/2010/04/01/#quoteOfDayThu, 01 Apr 2010 01:22:08 PDTAristotleA fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/30/#quoteOfDayTue, 30 Mar 2010 01:09:07 PDTSophoclesBut most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust whichhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/03/28/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Mar 2010 00:40:21 PDTGeorge EliotI hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted sohttp://mohanjith.net/2010/03/26/#quoteOfDayFri, 26 Mar 2010 01:07:07 PDTRene DescartesFailure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/25/#quoteOfDayThu, 25 Mar 2010 00:56:58 PDTGeorge EliotPerhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/23/#quoteOfDayTue, 23 Mar 2010 02:24:37 PDTGeorge EliotHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainlyhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/03/20/#quoteOfDaySat, 20 Mar 2010 01:07:12 PDTFrancis BaconI needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/19/#quoteOfDayFri, 19 Mar 2010 00:08:44 PDTAlexandre DumasTrue enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/18/#quoteOfDayThu, 18 Mar 2010 00:15:32 PDTCharlotte BronteIt was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/17/#quoteOfDayWed, 17 Mar 2010 00:14:50 PDTGeorge EliotOf all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/16/#quoteOfDayTue, 16 Mar 2010 00:06:55 PDTWilla CatherReason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, likehttp://mohanjith.net/2010/03/15/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Mar 2010 00:19:50 PDTCharlotte BronteAll virtue is summed up in dealing justly.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/12/#quoteOfDayFri, 12 Mar 2010 00:48:42 PSTAristotleIn the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravathttp://mohanjith.net/2010/03/08/#quoteOfDayMon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:47 PSTGeorge EliotDeath is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/07/#quoteOfDaySun, 07 Mar 2010 00:26:11 PSTGeorge EliotNature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:37 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonShe generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/04/#quoteOfDayThu, 04 Mar 2010 00:25:30 PSTLewis CarrollBut men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/28/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:53 PSTFrancis BaconThe sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down overhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/02/27/#quoteOfDaySat, 27 Feb 2010 08:45:43 PSTWilla CatherCertain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/26/#quoteOfDayFri, 26 Feb 2010 00:37:52 PSTVictor HugoDying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a begihttp://mohanjith.net/2010/02/25/#quoteOfDayThu, 25 Feb 2010 00:04:35 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawEquality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and ishttp://mohanjith.net/2010/02/23/#quoteOfDayTue, 23 Feb 2010 00:58:43 PSTJames Fenimore CooperAs large as life, and twice as natural.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/22/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Feb 2010 00:04:55 PSTLewis CarrollGood manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/20/#quoteOfDaySat, 20 Feb 2010 00:56:15 PSTJonathan SwiftAnyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactlyhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/02/18/#quoteOfDayThu, 18 Feb 2010 00:25:45 PSTKarl Marx & Frederick EngelsIt opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper...; so cry away.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/16/#quoteOfDayTue, 16 Feb 2010 01:56:13 PSTCharles DickensA stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because hehttp://mohanjith.net/2010/02/15/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:11:52 PSTGilbert ChestertonExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Feb 2010 00:17:12 PSTHonore de BalzacThe world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/13/#quoteOfDaySat, 13 Feb 2010 00:15:37 PSTBill ClintonA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/10/#quoteOfDayWed, 10 Feb 2010 00:28:13 PSTOscar WildeWhen a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/09/#quoteOfDayTue, 09 Feb 2010 01:02:44 PSTJonathan SwiftBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and thttp://mohanjith.net/2010/02/08/#quoteOfDayMon, 08 Feb 2010 00:46:46 PSTW. Somerset MaughamAffairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/06/#quoteOfDaySat, 06 Feb 2010 03:01:50 PSTAesopSecret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Feb 2010 00:26:37 PSTSun TzuThere's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/03/#quoteOfDayWed, 03 Feb 2010 00:57:54 PSTAgatha ChristieThey who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/30/#quoteOfDaySat, 30 Jan 2010 00:13:09 PSTAesopEverything has got a moral if you can only find it.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/29/#quoteOfDayFri, 29 Jan 2010 00:28:49 PSTLewis CarrollNo greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless ofhttp://mohanjith.net/2010/01/27/#quoteOfDayWed, 27 Jan 2010 00:10:43 PSTBooker T. WashingtonLife is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 Jan 2010 00:02:57 PSTEdith WhartonMan lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/25/#quoteOfDayMon, 25 Jan 2010 00:11:19 PSTLeo TolstoyLaw never made men a whit more just.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/23/#quoteOfDaySat, 23 Jan 2010 00:25:51 PSTHenry David ThoreauMost of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/21/#quoteOfDayThu, 21 Jan 2010 00:35:19 PSTWilla CatherTrue love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/20/#quoteOfDayWed, 20 Jan 2010 00:26:10 PSTHarriet Beecher StoweAll is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/19/#quoteOfDayTue, 19 Jan 2010 00:12:38 PSTLouisa May AlcottHe of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/17/#quoteOfDaySun, 17 Jan 2010 00:24:13 PSTFrancis BaconThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/16/#quoteOfDaySat, 16 Jan 2010 01:03:37 PSTAristotleToleration is the best religion.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 15 Jan 2010 00:30:16 PSTVictor HugoIf a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/13/#quoteOfDayWed, 13 Jan 2010 01:28:22 PSTGilbert Chesterton'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of fools;Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 Jan 2010 00:15:27 PSTJonathan SwiftHe who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/08/#quoteOfDayFri, 08 Jan 2010 00:55:03 PSTMiguel de CervantesHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/07/#quoteOfDayThu, 07 Jan 2010 00:24:26 PSTVirginia WoolfSo wise so young, they say, do never live long.http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/05/#quoteOfDayTue, 05 Jan 2010 02:35:53 PSTWilliam ShakespeareWhen sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions!http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/02/#quoteOfDaySat, 02 Jan 2010 00:16:30 PSTWilliam ShakespeareFor my part I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses—the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/30/#quoteOfDayWed, 30 Dec 2009 00:42:47 PSTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayPlease do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:06:19 PSTOscar WildeA kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 Dec 2009 01:05:02 PSTWashington IrvingThere is no good ... in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. ... The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/25/#quoteOfDayFri, 25 Dec 2009 03:25:03 PSTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayTo hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/23/#quoteOfDayWed, 23 Dec 2009 02:22:38 PSTRobert Louis StevensonLife is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 22 Dec 2009 02:42:26 PSTMary ShelleyNothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find thttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 Dec 2009 00:06:09 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawThe demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all abovhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/20/#quoteOfDaySun, 20 Dec 2009 00:09:26 PSTJames Fenimore CooperThe qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapehttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/18/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 Dec 2009 00:39:06 PSTWilla CatherMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/16/#quoteOfDayWed, 16 Dec 2009 00:11:31 PSTH.G. WellsMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/15/#quoteOfDayTue, 15 Dec 2009 00:04:15 PSTAristotleThe best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 Dec 2009 00:02:50 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall bhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/11/#quoteOfDayFri, 11 Dec 2009 02:05:56 PSTJane AustenWe (Americans) are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the ghttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 10 Dec 2009 00:05:42 PSTMark TwainTrifles make the sum of life.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/09/#quoteOfDayWed, 09 Dec 2009 01:19:07 PSTCharles DickensLet us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars—namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth-puttinhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/12/08/#quoteOfDayTue, 08 Dec 2009 01:10:18 PSTRene DescartesScience, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/07/#quoteOfDayMon, 07 Dec 2009 00:51:17 PSTJules VerneEvery author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/06/#quoteOfDaySun, 06 Dec 2009 00:03:51 PSTP. G. WodehouseThe ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 Dec 2009 02:13:34 PSTJohn F. KennedyI am never afraid of what I know.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/30/#quoteOfDayMon, 30 Nov 2009 00:12:50 PSTAnna SewellWe have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/29/#quoteOfDaySun, 29 Nov 2009 00:17:17 PSTRudyard KiplingFacing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/27/#quoteOfDayFri, 27 Nov 2009 00:11:37 PSTJoseph ConradEverything's got a moral, if only you can find it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/21/#quoteOfDaySat, 21 Nov 2009 02:52:32 PSTLewis CarrollThe same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/20/#quoteOfDayFri, 20 Nov 2009 00:07:44 PSTMary ShelleyRights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/17/#quoteOfDayTue, 17 Nov 2009 00:17:54 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeA loving heart is the truest wisdom.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/16/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Nov 2009 01:03:43 PSTCharles DickensCurious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/13/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Nov 2009 02:28:41 PSTAgatha ChristieConceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of phttp://mohanjith.net/2009/11/12/#quoteOfDayThu, 12 Nov 2009 00:05:38 PSTLouisa May AlcottIt takes two flints to make a fire.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Nov 2009 00:33:25 PSTLouisa May AlcottWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/10/#quoteOfDayTue, 10 Nov 2009 00:31:08 PSTLeo TolstoyToo much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/09/#quoteOfDayMon, 09 Nov 2009 00:18:30 PSTMiguel de CervantesIt is not good to have a rule of many.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 07 Nov 2009 00:31:47 PSTHomerHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreamshttp://mohanjith.net/2009/11/06/#quoteOfDayFri, 06 Nov 2009 00:07:16 PSTBram StokerHe would make a lovely corpse.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/05/#quoteOfDayThu, 05 Nov 2009 00:34:31 PSTCharles DickensWhy not seize the pleasure at once?— How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/04/#quoteOfDayWed, 04 Nov 2009 00:21:26 PSTJane AustenThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/03/#quoteOfDayTue, 03 Nov 2009 01:21:03 PSTOscar WildeBeauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/02/#quoteOfDayMon, 02 Nov 2009 02:37:35 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawI prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/30/#quoteOfDayFri, 30 Oct 2009 00:45:25 PDTFrederick DouglassWe can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/26/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Oct 2009 01:03:28 PDTVirginia WoolfSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, othershttp://mohanjith.net/2009/10/25/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Oct 2009 00:49:46 PDTFrancis BaconFascism is capitalism plus murder.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/24/#quoteOfDaySat, 24 Oct 2009 01:00:14 PDTUpton SinclairYou can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/23/#quoteOfDayFri, 23 Oct 2009 00:04:59 PDTBill ClintonI am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and livhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/10/22/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 Oct 2009 01:34:46 PDTL. Frank BaumThe chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/20/#quoteOfDayTue, 20 Oct 2009 00:05:34 PDTArthur Conan DoyleLife is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Oct 2009 02:58:00 PDTEdith WhartonTo most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/18/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Oct 2009 00:15:08 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThese are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/16/#quoteOfDayFri, 16 Oct 2009 01:19:07 PDTVirginia WoolfMan needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Oct 2009 00:53:36 PDTBertrand RussellDreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lightshttp://mohanjith.net/2009/10/12/#quoteOfDayMon, 12 Oct 2009 01:26:53 PDTCharles DickensFaith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/11/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Oct 2009 00:41:11 PDTLeo TolstoyOne is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/10/#quoteOfDaySat, 10 Oct 2009 04:07:11 PDTAgatha ChristieTurning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/08/#quoteOfDayThu, 08 Oct 2009 01:04:13 PDTBill ClintonVirtue is the truest nobility.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Oct 2009 02:01:43 PDTMiguel de CervantesO, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/04/#quoteOfDaySun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:29 PDTSir Walter ScottBut this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that at times strangely willshttp://mohanjith.net/2009/10/03/#quoteOfDaySat, 03 Oct 2009 01:20:19 PDTCharlotte BronteYet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/02/#quoteOfDayFri, 02 Oct 2009 00:46:27 PDTVirginia WoolfConventionality is not morality.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/29/#quoteOfDayTue, 29 Sep 2009 05:26:08 PDTCharlotte BronteIs there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 28 Sep 2009 01:25:46 PDTRobert Louis StevensonIf I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/27/#quoteOfDaySun, 27 Sep 2009 02:35:59 PDTAbraham LincolnIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 Sep 2009 00:03:07 PDTMark TwainThe course of true love never did run smooth.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/25/#quoteOfDayFri, 25 Sep 2009 00:21:15 PDTWilliam ShakespeareBore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 22 Sep 2009 00:27:18 PDTAmbrose BierceExcess of wealth is cause of covetousness.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/20/#quoteOfDaySun, 20 Sep 2009 01:13:19 PDTChristopher MarloweThe time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/19/#quoteOfDaySat, 19 Sep 2009 02:11:13 PDTJohn F. KennedyWell may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/18/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 Sep 2009 00:09:08 PDTWilkie CollinsPolitics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/17/#quoteOfDayThu, 17 Sep 2009 00:59:04 PDTAmbrose BierceLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/16/#quoteOfDayWed, 16 Sep 2009 03:01:20 PDTJane AustenThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/15/#quoteOfDayTue, 15 Sep 2009 00:30:21 PDTFriedrich NietzscheFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 13 Sep 2009 00:24:34 PDTWilliam ShakespeareCheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 Sep 2009 02:06:58 PDTCharlotte BronteYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/11/#quoteOfDayFri, 11 Sep 2009 05:22:28 PDTGilbert ChestertonOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 10 Sep 2009 00:26:27 PDTSophoclesThere is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest orhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/09/09/#quoteOfDayWed, 09 Sep 2009 00:26:57 PDTSophoclesWe are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/04/#quoteOfDayFri, 04 Sep 2009 00:11:33 PDTW. Somerset MaughamI too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:31 PDTHomerThink not that thy word and thine alone must be right.http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/01/#quoteOfDayTue, 01 Sep 2009 00:19:42 PDTSophoclesLife's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/31/#quoteOfDayMon, 31 Aug 2009 01:10:12 PDTVictor HugoA friend is a gift you give yourself.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/30/#quoteOfDaySun, 30 Aug 2009 01:07:17 PDTRobert Louis StevensonIf we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but alhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/08/29/#quoteOfDaySat, 29 Aug 2009 00:53:01 PDTVirginia WoolfBoyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to behttp://mohanjith.net/2009/08/28/#quoteOfDayFri, 28 Aug 2009 00:38:41 PDTP. G. WodehouseAmbition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/27/#quoteOfDayThu, 27 Aug 2009 00:47:28 PDTJonathan SwiftAppear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 Aug 2009 00:19:55 PDTSun TzuThree things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/22/#quoteOfDaySat, 22 Aug 2009 00:33:30 PDTHenry JamesIt will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or shttp://mohanjith.net/2009/08/21/#quoteOfDayFri, 21 Aug 2009 00:04:58 PDTJames MadisonThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/19/#quoteOfDayWed, 19 Aug 2009 00:02:52 PDTH.G. WellsNothing is so good as it seems beforehand.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/17/#quoteOfDayMon, 17 Aug 2009 00:15:48 PDTGeorge EliotIn human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 15 Aug 2009 01:09:39 PDTHenry David ThoreauThe strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:07 PDTLeo TolstoyAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/13/#quoteOfDayThu, 13 Aug 2009 00:45:27 PDTFriedrich NietzschePeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 Aug 2009 03:37:14 PDTW. Somerset MaughamWhenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/10/#quoteOfDayMon, 10 Aug 2009 02:27:38 PDTL. Frank BaumWhat does your conscience say?—”You must become who it is that you are.”http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/09/#quoteOfDaySun, 09 Aug 2009 05:29:20 PDTFriedrich NietzscheTis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/08/#quoteOfDaySat, 08 Aug 2009 00:13:36 PDTAbraham LincolnBig things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/03/#quoteOfDayMon, 03 Aug 2009 00:26:36 PDTBill ClintonAction speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/01/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Aug 2009 00:03:46 PDTMark TwainThe changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience...not from our mental resolhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/07/31/#quoteOfDayFri, 31 Jul 2009 00:26:19 PDTLeo TolstoySome people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/30/#quoteOfDayThu, 30 Jul 2009 00:23:20 PDTVirginia WoolfOne realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the thttp://mohanjith.net/2009/07/29/#quoteOfDayWed, 29 Jul 2009 01:31:59 PDTWilla CatherWise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/28/#quoteOfDayTue, 28 Jul 2009 00:09:14 PDTPlatoA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/24/#quoteOfDayFri, 24 Jul 2009 00:32:41 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawIt's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/23/#quoteOfDayThu, 23 Jul 2009 00:24:28 PDTEleanor H. PorterMen are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/22/#quoteOfDayWed, 22 Jul 2009 01:07:37 PDTJonathan SwiftWho can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/15/#quoteOfDayWed, 15 Jul 2009 00:54:38 PDTKate ChopinOne of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 11 Jul 2009 06:33:03 PDTJonathan SwiftFor success, attitude is equally as important as ability.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/09/#quoteOfDayThu, 09 Jul 2009 00:13:16 PDTSir Walter ScottAlways do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/07/#quoteOfDayTue, 07 Jul 2009 00:19:36 PDTMark TwainHypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revoltedhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/07/06/#quoteOfDayMon, 06 Jul 2009 00:13:46 PDTLeo TolstoyThoughts are mightier than strength of hand.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/05/#quoteOfDaySun, 05 Jul 2009 01:01:22 PDTSophoclesPeople want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/04/#quoteOfDaySat, 04 Jul 2009 00:15:56 PDTLouisa May AlcottYouth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.http://mohanjith.net/2009/07/03/#quoteOfDayFri, 03 Jul 2009 00:05:24 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawWherever God erects a house of prayer,The Devil always builds a chapel there:And 'twill be found, upon examination;The latter has the largest congregahttp://mohanjith.net/2009/07/01/#quoteOfDayWed, 01 Jul 2009 03:49:30 PDTDaniel DefoeOne hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decohttp://mohanjith.net/2009/06/30/#quoteOfDayTue, 30 Jun 2009 02:57:37 PDTSir Walter ScottI like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/29/#quoteOfDayMon, 29 Jun 2009 01:17:16 PDTWilla CatherOne day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his respohttp://mohanjith.net/2009/06/28/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Jun 2009 00:20:53 PDTLewis CarrollA flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/26/#quoteOfDayFri, 26 Jun 2009 00:10:22 PDTHonore de BalzacAdmiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/25/#quoteOfDayThu, 25 Jun 2009 00:12:55 PDTHonore de BalzacBut I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable sphttp://mohanjith.net/2009/06/24/#quoteOfDayWed, 24 Jun 2009 00:08:14 PDTMary ShelleyPerhaps life is just that...a dream and a fear.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/22/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Jun 2009 00:32:09 PDTJoseph ConradWhere painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/18/#quoteOfDayThu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:28 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweEvery hour has its end.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/15/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Jun 2009 03:08:50 PDTSir Walter ScottIt's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Jun 2009 09:10:56 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawLet us all resolve, first, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault-finding that does no good a sin, and to resolve, when we are ourshttp://mohanjith.net/2009/06/13/#quoteOfDaySat, 13 Jun 2009 02:15:34 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweSociety bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/12/#quoteOfDayFri, 12 Jun 2009 00:23:02 PDTHonore de BalzacThe chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/09/#quoteOfDayTue, 09 Jun 2009 00:54:09 PDTLeo TolstoyLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/06/#quoteOfDaySat, 06 Jun 2009 15:13:42 PDTH.G. WellsI am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/06/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:39 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweI would rather make my name than inherit it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/03/#quoteOfDayWed, 03 Jun 2009 00:17:55 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayAnd my heart springs anew,Bright and confident and true,And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/01/#quoteOfDayMon, 01 Jun 2009 00:48:07 PDTRobert Louis Stevenson"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/31/#quoteOfDaySun, 31 May 2009 06:55:27 PDTMark TwainIt is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/29/#quoteOfDayFri, 29 May 2009 03:04:43 PDTMary ShelleyOur business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/28/#quoteOfDayThu, 28 May 2009 11:05:31 PDTRobert Louis StevensonWe must reform society before we can reform ourselves.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/27/#quoteOfDayWed, 27 May 2009 00:53:08 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 May 2009 00:29:16 PDTJohn Quincy AdamsCourtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/25/#quoteOfDayMon, 25 May 2009 00:43:24 PDTHonore de BalzacLet us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/24/#quoteOfDaySun, 24 May 2009 00:10:55 PDTBill ClintonError is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/22/#quoteOfDayFri, 22 May 2009 00:22:00 PDTLeo TolstoyThis is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women inhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/05/21/#quoteOfDayThu, 21 May 2009 01:16:28 PDTVirginia WoolfOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/17/#quoteOfDaySun, 17 May 2009 00:22:48 PDTVirginia WoolfThe vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/16/#quoteOfDaySat, 16 May 2009 00:14:20 PDTLeo TolstoyThere is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystehttp://mohanjith.net/2009/05/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 15 May 2009 00:38:00 PDTJoseph ConradDo not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/13/#quoteOfDayWed, 13 May 2009 00:07:34 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayI am neither a man nor a woman but an author.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 May 2009 00:20:30 PDTCharlotte BronteEvery dog must have his day.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/11/#quoteOfDayMon, 11 May 2009 01:25:14 PDTJonathan SwiftReason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/07/#quoteOfDayThu, 07 May 2009 00:43:39 PDTJonathan SwiftThe happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/06/#quoteOfDayWed, 06 May 2009 03:21:37 PDTLeo TolstoyDespair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/10/#quoteOfDaySun, 10 May 2009 00:20:39 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayThe enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/05/#quoteOfDayTue, 05 May 2009 02:35:32 PDTJane AustenExcellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/09/#quoteOfDaySat, 09 May 2009 01:19:42 PDTBooker T. WashingtonPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/04/#quoteOfDayMon, 04 May 2009 08:49:53 PDTJohn Quincy AdamsThe private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/03/#quoteOfDaySun, 03 May 2009 02:43:56 PDTUpton SinclairTo be beloved is all I need,And whom I love, I love indeed.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/08/#quoteOfDayFri, 08 May 2009 00:05:23 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/02/#quoteOfDaySat, 02 May 2009 00:09:00 PDTFriedrich NietzscheSuffering predisposes the mind to devoutness.http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/01/#quoteOfDayFri, 01 May 2009 01:31:43 PDTHonore de BalzacOnly in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as ofhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/04/30/#quoteOfDayThu, 30 Apr 2009 05:02:29 PDTJoseph ConradWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/29/#quoteOfDayWed, 29 Apr 2009 00:11:52 PDTHonore de BalzacLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything ihttp://mohanjith.net/2009/04/27/#quoteOfDayMon, 27 Apr 2009 03:25:57 PDTLeo TolstoyWe were at last in Monte Cristo's country, fairly into the country of the fabulous, where extravagance ceases to exist because everything is extravagahttp://mohanjith.net/2009/04/26/#quoteOfDaySun, 26 Apr 2009 00:30:18 PDTWilla CatherAn aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/25/#quoteOfDaySat, 25 Apr 2009 00:20:28 PDTRobert Louis StevensonAll the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the sihttp://mohanjith.net/2009/04/24/#quoteOfDayFri, 24 Apr 2009 03:20:42 PDTWilla CatherI do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/22/#quoteOfDayWed, 22 Apr 2009 00:26:19 PDTJane AustenRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/21/#quoteOfDayTue, 21 Apr 2009 00:27:54 PDTHenry David ThoreauCharacter is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/20/#quoteOfDayMon, 20 Apr 2009 01:12:32 PDTFriedrich NietzscheTo say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but thhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/04/19/#quoteOfDaySun, 19 Apr 2009 01:42:01 PDTLeo TolstoyThe truth is always the strongest argument.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/18/#quoteOfDaySat, 18 Apr 2009 00:38:53 PDTSophoclesI think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/17/#quoteOfDayFri, 17 Apr 2009 00:18:54 PDTLouisa May AlcottTalking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/16/#quoteOfDayThu, 16 Apr 2009 05:41:17 PDTFriedrich NietzscheCourt not the critic's smile nor dread his frown.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/15/#quoteOfDayWed, 15 Apr 2009 00:03:24 PDTSir Walter ScottThe manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/14/#quoteOfDayTue, 14 Apr 2009 00:01:51 PDTJohn Quincy AdamsI don't like work...but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/13/#quoteOfDayMon, 13 Apr 2009 00:52:41 PDTJoseph ConradIf thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/12/#quoteOfDaySun, 12 Apr 2009 01:53:29 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayEvery reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 11 Apr 2009 00:40:52 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeLove makes fools of us all, big and little.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/10/#quoteOfDayFri, 10 Apr 2009 00:18:01 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayFriendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/09/#quoteOfDayThu, 09 Apr 2009 11:33:34 PDTJane AustenIt is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 08 Apr 2009 00:17:10 PDTMark TwainA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/07/#quoteOfDayTue, 07 Apr 2009 03:20:34 PDTJane AustenWhat makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings lifehttp://mohanjith.net/2009/04/06/#quoteOfDayMon, 06 Apr 2009 00:57:07 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweThere are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/05/#quoteOfDaySun, 05 Apr 2009 00:04:39 PDTBooker T. WashingtonA round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/04/#quoteOfDaySat, 04 Apr 2009 00:36:03 PDTMark TwainIt was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/03/#quoteOfDayFri, 03 Apr 2009 01:24:56 PDTKate ChopinBut surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/02/#quoteOfDayThu, 02 Apr 2009 00:13:24 PDTAgatha ChristieTo do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.http://mohanjith.net/2009/04/01/#quoteOfDayWed, 01 Apr 2009 00:17:01 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweIf you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/31/#quoteOfDayTue, 31 Mar 2009 01:24:46 PDTMark TwainNo pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/30/#quoteOfDayMon, 30 Mar 2009 00:37:37 PDTFrancis BaconNot till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/29/#quoteOfDaySun, 29 Mar 2009 00:42:56 PDTHenry David ThoreauAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/27/#quoteOfDayFri, 27 Mar 2009 00:22:15 PDTMark TwainArt, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and whathttp://mohanjith.net/2009/03/26/#quoteOfDayThu, 26 Mar 2009 00:40:17 PDTWilla CatherIs death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/25/#quoteOfDayWed, 25 Mar 2009 00:36:39 PDTSir Walter ScottI read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/24/#quoteOfDayTue, 24 Mar 2009 00:33:50 PDTVirginia WoolfStrength and wisdom are not opposing values.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/22/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Mar 2009 00:32:00 PDTBill ClintonThe fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/21/#quoteOfDaySat, 21 Mar 2009 00:05:37 PDTWilla CatherCruel people are ever cowards in emergency.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/20/#quoteOfDayFri, 20 Mar 2009 00:47:44 PDTJonathan SwiftHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/19/#quoteOfDayThu, 19 Mar 2009 00:21:52 PDTHenry David ThoreauVanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/18/#quoteOfDayWed, 18 Mar 2009 00:40:09 PDTJoseph ConradA learned man is an idler who kills time by study.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/16/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Mar 2009 07:50:28 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawSilly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/15/#quoteOfDaySun, 15 Mar 2009 00:02:03 PDTJane AustenFor a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/14/#quoteOfDaySat, 14 Mar 2009 00:05:31 PDTFrancis BaconFriendships are discovered rather than made.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/13/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Mar 2009 00:12:57 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweDogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/12/#quoteOfDayThu, 12 Mar 2009 01:08:50 PDTAgatha ChristieIn darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Mar 2009 00:28:38 PDTSophoclesI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/10/#quoteOfDayTue, 10 Mar 2009 00:08:32 PDTRobert Louis StevensonLove is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/09/#quoteOfDayMon, 09 Mar 2009 02:18:44 PDTLouisa May AlcottAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Mar 2009 00:13:19 PSTRobert Louis StevensonGreat art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 07 Mar 2009 00:08:51 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawPower is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/06/#quoteOfDayFri, 06 Mar 2009 00:05:14 PSTJonathan SwiftI don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/04/#quoteOfDayWed, 04 Mar 2009 01:29:04 PSTH.G. WellsThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/03/#quoteOfDayTue, 03 Mar 2009 00:13:21 PSTJonathan SwiftThe die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/02/#quoteOfDayMon, 02 Mar 2009 00:28:09 PSTJohn Quincy AdamsExtreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.http://mohanjith.net/2009/03/01/#quoteOfDaySun, 01 Mar 2009 01:00:38 PSTFriedrich NietzscheSordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our sthttp://mohanjith.net/2009/02/27/#quoteOfDayFri, 27 Feb 2009 00:13:42 PSTSir Walter Scott“I'm very brave generally,” he went on in a low voice: “only today I happen to have a headache.”http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/24/#quoteOfDayTue, 24 Feb 2009 00:14:31 PSTLewis CarrollLiberty is worth paying for.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/23/#quoteOfDayMon, 23 Feb 2009 03:45:05 PSTJules VerneA secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/22/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Feb 2009 00:55:37 PSTJonathan SwiftWhat the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/21/#quoteOfDaySat, 21 Feb 2009 00:47:23 PSTFriedrich NietzscheA man never tells you anything until you contradict him.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/20/#quoteOfDayFri, 20 Feb 2009 00:43:10 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawAuthentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feelshttp://mohanjith.net/2009/02/19/#quoteOfDayThu, 19 Feb 2009 00:32:17 PSTHonore de BalzacCrime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/18/#quoteOfDayWed, 18 Feb 2009 00:50:04 PSTH.G. WellsUnexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/17/#quoteOfDayTue, 17 Feb 2009 01:05:43 PSTFriedrich NietzscheMy books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine—everybody drinks water.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/16/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Feb 2009 01:05:42 PSTMark TwainThere are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/15/#quoteOfDaySun, 15 Feb 2009 00:05:07 PSTSophoclesGolf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball whhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/02/14/#quoteOfDaySat, 14 Feb 2009 00:34:47 PSTP. G. WodehouseHe that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/13/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Feb 2009 00:26:54 PSTFrancis BaconIt is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/12/#quoteOfDayThu, 12 Feb 2009 00:49:18 PSTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayWork without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,And Hope without an object cannot live.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/10/#quoteOfDayTue, 10 Feb 2009 01:20:18 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Feb 2009 02:30:53 PSTJoseph ConradRevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 07 Feb 2009 02:03:55 PSTFrancis BaconOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/06/#quoteOfDayFri, 06 Feb 2009 02:20:38 PSTJonathan SwiftTo be awake is to be alive.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/05/#quoteOfDayThu, 05 Feb 2009 00:15:47 PSTHenry David ThoreauSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/04/#quoteOfDayWed, 04 Feb 2009 06:48:02 PSTVirginia WoolfAll violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/03/#quoteOfDayTue, 03 Feb 2009 00:31:53 PSTLeo TolstoySome children have a most disagreeable way of getting grown-up.http://mohanjith.net/2009/02/02/#quoteOfDayMon, 02 Feb 2009 00:23:09 PSTLewis CarrollA man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emergeshttp://mohanjith.net/2009/02/01/#quoteOfDaySun, 01 Feb 2009 01:07:04 PSTP. G. WodehouseMen of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content thhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/01/31/#quoteOfDaySat, 31 Jan 2009 01:20:20 PSTFrancis BaconThe “selfish man” is he who would do the thing, even if it harmed others, so long as it gave him pleasure: the “unselfish man” is he who wouldhttp://mohanjith.net/2009/01/30/#quoteOfDayFri, 30 Jan 2009 00:30:49 PSTLewis CarrollI have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find—at the ahttp://mohanjith.net/2009/01/29/#quoteOfDayThu, 29 Jan 2009 02:20:43 PSTAgatha ChristieIf one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/28/#quoteOfDayWed, 28 Jan 2009 00:42:47 PSTLeo TolstoyGood books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/27/#quoteOfDayTue, 27 Jan 2009 02:50:38 PSTLouisa May AlcottIt is terrible to speak well and be wrong.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/26/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Jan 2009 01:25:15 PSTSophoclesA man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/25/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Jan 2009 00:40:30 PSTJohn Quincy AdamsA man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/23/#quoteOfDayFri, 23 Jan 2009 00:03:26 PSTMark TwainTo sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/22/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 Jan 2009 00:24:43 PSTJane AustenI am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/21/#quoteOfDayWed, 21 Jan 2009 00:50:36 PSTFrances Hodgson BurnettThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/20/#quoteOfDayTue, 20 Jan 2009 00:03:35 PSTJane AustenA clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Jan 2009 01:51:40 PSTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/18/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Jan 2009 09:58:17 PSTFrancis BaconWoe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love—and to put its trust in life.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/17/#quoteOfDaySat, 17 Jan 2009 00:14:34 PSTJoseph ConradSome people bear three kinds of trouble—the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/16/#quoteOfDayFri, 16 Jan 2009 00:40:01 PSTH.G. WellsIt is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Jan 2009 04:12:23 PSTJonathan SwiftWhat makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/14/#quoteOfDayWed, 14 Jan 2009 00:57:51 PSTJoseph ConradGood and bad men are each less so than they seem.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/13/#quoteOfDayTue, 13 Jan 2009 00:29:23 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/12/#quoteOfDayMon, 12 Jan 2009 01:00:00 PSTMark TwainLet me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/11/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Jan 2009 00:25:09 PSTBill ClintonIgnorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/10/#quoteOfDaySat, 10 Jan 2009 00:13:13 PSTSophoclesIt is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/09/#quoteOfDayFri, 09 Jan 2009 01:08:53 PSTCharlotte BronteWe neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/08/#quoteOfDayThu, 08 Jan 2009 08:37:47 PSTWilkie CollinsWhen one takes a broad survey of the country, he will find that the most useful and influential people in it are those who take the deepest interest ihttp://mohanjith.net/2009/01/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Jan 2009 00:01:12 PSTBooker T. WashingtonAnd if I pray, the only prayerThat moves my lips for meIs—"Leave the heart that now I bear,And give me liberty."http://mohanjith.net/2009/01/01/#quoteOfDayThu, 01 Jan 2009 02:20:56 PSTEmily BronteFaith is the force of life.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/30/#quoteOfDayTue, 30 Dec 2008 02:21:40 PSTLeo TolstoyMan will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/26/#quoteOfDayFri, 26 Dec 2008 00:38:09 PSTMark TwainCare and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/24/#quoteOfDayWed, 24 Dec 2008 00:10:47 PSTHarriet Beecher StoweAt the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achievhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/12/22/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Dec 2008 00:17:25 PSTP. G. WodehouseBetter a broken promise than none at all.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/21/#quoteOfDaySun, 21 Dec 2008 01:44:26 PSTMark TwainOh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/19/#quoteOfDayFri, 19 Dec 2008 05:28:22 PSTJane AustenI write to escape; to escape poverty.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/18/#quoteOfDayThu, 18 Dec 2008 00:11:01 PSTEdgar Rice BurroughsI know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/17/#quoteOfDayWed, 17 Dec 2008 00:29:49 PSTP. G. WodehouseTo know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/16/#quoteOfDayTue, 16 Dec 2008 00:40:40 PSTRobert Louis StevensonReading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/15/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Dec 2008 07:37:24 PSTFrancis BaconKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries!—what worthy man does not keep those in mind?http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Dec 2008 00:48:15 PSTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayA prudent man should neglect no circumstances.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/13/#quoteOfDaySat, 13 Dec 2008 00:30:41 PSTSophoclesMoney is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/12/#quoteOfDayFri, 12 Dec 2008 00:12:19 PSTLouisa May AlcottGolf, like measles, should be caught young.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/10/#quoteOfDayWed, 10 Dec 2008 00:23:48 PSTP. G. WodehouseIt is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/08/#quoteOfDayMon, 08 Dec 2008 01:57:12 PSTMary ShelleyLove is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/07/#quoteOfDaySun, 07 Dec 2008 04:46:47 PSTEmily BronteA letter is an unannounced visit, and the postman is the intermediary of impolite surprises. Every week we ought to have one hour for receiving letterhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/12/06/#quoteOfDaySat, 06 Dec 2008 00:04:37 PSTFriedrich NietzscheLife appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.http://mohanjith.net/2008/12/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Dec 2008 00:47:03 PSTCharlotte BronteWater, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/29/#quoteOfDaySat, 29 Nov 2008 00:37:58 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeI never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/28/#quoteOfDayFri, 28 Nov 2008 11:00:54 PSTHenry David ThoreauI don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/27/#quoteOfDayThu, 27 Nov 2008 00:01:14 PSTCharlotte BronteI love those who do not know how to live for today.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/26/#quoteOfDayWed, 26 Nov 2008 00:22:10 PSTFriedrich NietzscheWhoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength tohttp://mohanjith.net/2008/11/25/#quoteOfDayTue, 25 Nov 2008 00:04:22 PSTFriedrich NietzscheLove may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 Nov 2008 00:46:09 PSTHonore de BalzacNever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/21/#quoteOfDayFri, 21 Nov 2008 00:50:21 PSTHarriet Beecher StoweA man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than yesterday.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/20/#quoteOfDayThu, 20 Nov 2008 12:38:09 PSTJonathan SwiftWe live as we dream—alone.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/17/#quoteOfDayMon, 17 Nov 2008 00:18:44 PSTJoseph ConradIt is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 Nov 2008 01:26:45 PSTH.G. WellsVanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 15 Nov 2008 00:25:42 PSTJane AustenMoney is a needful and precious thing—and, when well used, a noble thing—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive forhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/11/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Nov 2008 07:29:53 PSTLouisa May AlcottGive us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavorhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/11/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 Nov 2008 01:09:22 PSTRobert Louis StevensonEach blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith togethttp://mohanjith.net/2008/11/11/#quoteOfDayTue, 11 Nov 2008 05:22:19 PSTJoseph ConradI like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/07/#quoteOfDayFri, 07 Nov 2008 00:58:54 PSTBill ClintonLet us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/04/#quoteOfDayTue, 04 Nov 2008 00:03:42 PSTMark TwainA work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/02/#quoteOfDaySun, 02 Nov 2008 01:28:11 PDTWilla CatherI thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.http://mohanjith.net/2008/11/01/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Nov 2008 10:01:23 PDTVirginia WoolfA casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/31/#quoteOfDayFri, 31 Oct 2008 00:21:21 PDTFriedrich NietzscheMalice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/30/#quoteOfDayThu, 30 Oct 2008 00:02:09 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayFortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/28/#quoteOfDayTue, 28 Oct 2008 00:26:45 PDTFrancis BaconA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/27/#quoteOfDayMon, 27 Oct 2008 06:23:47 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawIt is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/25/#quoteOfDaySat, 25 Oct 2008 01:15:48 PDTWilkie CollinsHe that is rich is wise.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/22/#quoteOfDayWed, 22 Oct 2008 04:58:43 PDTDaniel DefoeFame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in strugglhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/10/20/#quoteOfDayMon, 20 Oct 2008 00:38:16 PDTLouisa May AlcottFortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/19/#quoteOfDaySun, 19 Oct 2008 02:12:12 PDTSophoclesO!, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/18/#quoteOfDaySat, 18 Oct 2008 02:40:46 PDTSir Walter ScottFanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/17/#quoteOfDayFri, 17 Oct 2008 00:54:21 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweDo nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/16/#quoteOfDayThu, 16 Oct 2008 06:27:20 PDTSophoclesOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/13/#quoteOfDayMon, 13 Oct 2008 01:11:06 PDTRobert Louis StevensonWithout a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 11 Oct 2008 03:09:15 PDTBill ClintonNo one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 08 Oct 2008 00:38:29 PDTWilla CatherA fool's wild speech confounds the wise.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/07/#quoteOfDayTue, 07 Oct 2008 01:35:04 PDTSir Walter ScottThe history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/04/#quoteOfDaySat, 04 Oct 2008 06:40:44 PDTVirginia WoolfImagination is everything.http://mohanjith.net/2008/10/02/#quoteOfDayThu, 02 Oct 2008 00:06:51 PDTJane AustenEverybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/28/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Sep 2008 00:19:53 PDTJane AustenHere is a golden Rule...Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule!http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/24/#quoteOfDayWed, 24 Sep 2008 02:03:15 PDTLewis CarrollSublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that thhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/09/23/#quoteOfDayTue, 23 Sep 2008 03:19:35 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweLiterally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/22/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Sep 2008 00:09:05 PDTRobert Louis StevensonBoredom: the desire for desires.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/21/#quoteOfDaySun, 21 Sep 2008 01:11:19 PDTLeo TolstoyEvery secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/20/#quoteOfDaySat, 20 Sep 2008 05:55:14 PDTVirginia WoolfHeresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/19/#quoteOfDayFri, 19 Sep 2008 00:11:38 PDTH.G. WellsHow is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/17/#quoteOfDayWed, 17 Sep 2008 01:05:56 PDTJonathan SwiftLove may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/15/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Sep 2008 01:46:09 PDTHonore de BalzacIf a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found thttp://mohanjith.net/2008/09/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Sep 2008 01:41:16 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/11/#quoteOfDayThu, 11 Sep 2008 06:39:34 PDTWilla CatherIf a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his own at the same time.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/10/#quoteOfDayWed, 10 Sep 2008 05:45:16 PDTJonathan SwiftIf you want to be happy, be.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/09/#quoteOfDayTue, 09 Sep 2008 04:19:14 PDTLeo TolstoyNecessity makes an honest man a knave.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/08/#quoteOfDayMon, 08 Sep 2008 01:05:42 PDTDaniel DefoeTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Sep 2008 03:25:35 PDTJoseph ConradIt is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.http://mohanjith.net/2008/09/01/#quoteOfDayMon, 01 Sep 2008 01:23:19 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayAny nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/28/#quoteOfDayThu, 28 Aug 2008 01:48:17 PDTHenry David ThoreauI feel monotony and death to be almost the same.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 Aug 2008 01:57:51 PDTCharlotte BronteObjectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/22/#quoteOfDayFri, 22 Aug 2008 00:07:39 PDTFriedrich NietzscheI cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/19/#quoteOfDayTue, 19 Aug 2008 01:48:56 PDTEmily BronteFollow your honest convictions and be strong.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/18/#quoteOfDayMon, 18 Aug 2008 03:30:53 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayOne doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/17/#quoteOfDaySun, 17 Aug 2008 01:18:41 PDTAgatha ChristieThe bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/16/#quoteOfDaySat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:41 PDTKate ChopinWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 15 Aug 2008 00:02:00 PDTJonathan SwiftI didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunatehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/08/13/#quoteOfDayWed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:55 PDTAgatha ChristieAny mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 Aug 2008 01:57:41 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweFew serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/09/#quoteOfDaySat, 09 Aug 2008 05:13:36 PDTFriedrich NietzscheIn fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, yohttp://mohanjith.net/2008/08/08/#quoteOfDayFri, 08 Aug 2008 02:31:29 PDTLewis CarrollYou perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound hhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/08/07/#quoteOfDayThu, 07 Aug 2008 01:21:22 PDTJoseph ConradFools make researches and wise men exploit them.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/06/#quoteOfDayWed, 06 Aug 2008 00:10:03 PDTH.G. WellsDon't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/05/#quoteOfDayTue, 05 Aug 2008 00:39:17 PDTRobert Louis StevensonNow, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/08/04/#quoteOfDayMon, 04 Aug 2008 03:22:53 PDTLewis CarrollDragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life...lies neahttp://mohanjith.net/2008/08/03/#quoteOfDaySun, 03 Aug 2008 01:19:14 PDTH.G. WellsMan is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.http://mohanjith.net/2008/08/02/#quoteOfDaySat, 02 Aug 2008 05:23:40 PDTH.G. WellsIn order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/29/#quoteOfDayTue, 29 Jul 2008 00:12:09 PDTJoseph ConradIn individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 28 Jul 2008 02:42:06 PDTFriedrich NietzscheIn a just cause it is right to be confident.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/27/#quoteOfDaySun, 27 Jul 2008 01:03:47 PDTSophoclesWhat is right to be done cannot be done too soon.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 Jul 2008 02:37:33 PDTJane AustenThe passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still havehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/07/24/#quoteOfDayThu, 24 Jul 2008 00:50:52 PDTCharlotte BronteRebukes are easy from our betters,From men of quality and letters;But when low dunces will affront,What man alive can stand the brunt?http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 22 Jul 2008 02:03:38 PDTJonathan SwiftIn diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 Jul 2008 01:45:31 PDTHonore de BalzacThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/20/#quoteOfDaySun, 20 Jul 2008 09:11:43 PDTRobert Louis StevensonIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/18/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 Jul 2008 04:27:16 PDTH.G. WellsHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/17/#quoteOfDayThu, 17 Jul 2008 13:14:21 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeConscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/16/#quoteOfDayWed, 16 Jul 2008 03:35:47 PDTHonore de BalzacConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/14/#quoteOfDayMon, 14 Jul 2008 02:26:58 PDTFriedrich NietzscheAnd the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:11 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeA picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 Jul 2008 00:43:31 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeIn song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community: he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying up ihttp://mohanjith.net/2008/07/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 10 Jul 2008 01:01:25 PDTFriedrich NietzscheOne crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/06/#quoteOfDaySun, 06 Jul 2008 00:28:45 PDTSir Walter ScottWe cannot command nature except by obeying her.http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/04/#quoteOfDayFri, 04 Jul 2008 01:19:12 PDTFrancis BaconOne may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something whttp://mohanjith.net/2008/07/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 Jul 2008 00:21:36 PDTJane AustenLife is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!http://mohanjith.net/2008/07/02/#quoteOfDayWed, 02 Jul 2008 00:45:43 PDTLouisa May AlcottOur friendship may never be perfect. No friendship is. But I hope it will last forever.http://mohanjith.net/2008/06/28/#quoteOfDaySat, 28 Jun 2008 03:14:04 PDTBill ClintonElegance is inferior to virtue.http://mohanjith.net/2008/06/24/#quoteOfDayTue, 24 Jun 2008 01:48:26 PDTMary ShelleyI have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.http://mohanjith.net/2008/06/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Jun 2008 03:28:48 PDTHenry David ThoreauHow queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same whttp://mohanjith.net/2008/06/05/#quoteOfDayThu, 05 Jun 2008 01:51:07 PDTLewis CarrollThose who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/31/#quoteOfDaySat, 31 May 2008 01:19:29 PDTWilliam Makepeace ThackerayI put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/28/#quoteOfDayWed, 28 May 2008 07:09:34 PDTOscar WildeFrom a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/26/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 May 2008 00:25:17 PDTArthur Conan DoyleThen took he the wound, smiling, And died, content.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/22/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 May 2008 03:56:13 PDTStephen CraneI suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path thhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/05/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 May 2008 00:03:02 PDTE. M. ForsterDemocracy is the most vile form of government...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatiblehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/05/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 May 2008 06:19:51 PDTJames MadisonNo gratitude from the wicked.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/09/#quoteOfDayFri, 09 May 2008 21:56:43 PDTAesopAdvice is like snow—the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 May 2008 00:15:36 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeEach age has deemed the new-born yearThe fittest time for festal cheer.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/06/#quoteOfDayTue, 06 May 2008 06:34:02 PDTSir Walter ScottNothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/04/#quoteOfDaySun, 04 May 2008 23:34:04 PDTMary ShelleyI don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/03/#quoteOfDaySat, 03 May 2008 20:01:58 PDTBill ClintonI think—therefore I am.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/02/#quoteOfDayFri, 02 May 2008 01:07:18 PDTRene DescartesA Quixotic sense of the honorable—of the chivalrous.http://mohanjith.net/2008/05/01/#quoteOfDayThu, 01 May 2008 14:26:06 PDTEdgar Allan PoeThe new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you,http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/30/#quoteOfDayWed, 30 Apr 2008 02:06:53 PDTBill ClintonA compliment is like a kiss through a veil.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/29/#quoteOfDayTue, 29 Apr 2008 01:04:42 PDTVictor HugoIt is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 28 Apr 2008 03:51:48 PDTEdgar Allan PoeWho ever loved that loved not at first sight?http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/27/#quoteOfDaySun, 27 Apr 2008 01:35:26 PDTChristopher MarloweI must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 Apr 2008 03:13:44 PDTMark TwainProhibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/25/#quoteOfDayFri, 25 Apr 2008 01:23:58 PDTSun TzuFor most of history, Anonymous was a woman.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/24/#quoteOfDayThu, 24 Apr 2008 01:32:36 PDTVirginia WoolfThere is a point at which even justice does injury.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/23/#quoteOfDayWed, 23 Apr 2008 00:24:12 PDTSophoclesAll happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 22 Apr 2008 00:02:34 PDTLeo TolstoyLife is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as poshttp://mohanjith.net/2008/04/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 Apr 2008 01:27:10 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/20/#quoteOfDaySun, 20 Apr 2008 00:38:45 PDTJoseph ConradA man of great common sense and good taste--meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/19/#quoteOfDaySat, 19 Apr 2008 00:20:54 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawOf all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/18/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 Apr 2008 02:38:51 PDTAristotleThe fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world whttp://mohanjith.net/2008/04/17/#quoteOfDayThu, 17 Apr 2008 00:20:29 PDTCharlotte Perkins GilmanIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/04/16/#quoteOfDayWed, 16 Apr 2008 00:01:10 PDTMark TwainLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/15/#quoteOfDayTue, 15 Apr 2008 01:35:28 PDTWilliam ShakespeareThere are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/14/#quoteOfDayMon, 14 Apr 2008 00:49:17 PDTGilbert ChestertonA man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sakehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/04/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 13 Apr 2008 00:01:15 PDTLeo TolstoyWe loved with a love that was more than love.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 Apr 2008 00:42:29 PDTEdgar Allan PoeA day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/11/#quoteOfDayFri, 11 Apr 2008 00:23:27 PDTCharles DickensBeware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 10 Apr 2008 01:16:37 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonEveryone is more or less mad on one point.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/09/#quoteOfDayWed, 09 Apr 2008 01:09:08 PDTRudyard KiplingLaws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/08/#quoteOfDayTue, 08 Apr 2008 00:24:51 PDTJonathan SwiftA multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.http://mohanjith.net/2008/04/07/#quoteOfDayMon, 07 Apr 2008 00:37:59 PDTHomerI have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewardhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/26/#quoteOfDayWed, 26 Mar 2008 00:04:01 PDTVirginia WoolfWe need never be ashamed of our tears.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/25/#quoteOfDayTue, 25 Mar 2008 00:28:47 PDTCharles DickensWork is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 Mar 2008 00:48:46 PDTLouisa May AlcottBe extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director ohttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/23/#quoteOfDaySun, 23 Mar 2008 00:23:29 PDTSun TzuTalent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to tryhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/22/#quoteOfDaySat, 22 Mar 2008 00:13:56 PDTLouisa May AlcottThe only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, tohttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/21/#quoteOfDayFri, 21 Mar 2008 01:00:20 PDTVirginia WoolfGood actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/20/#quoteOfDayThu, 20 Mar 2008 01:23:26 PDTMiguel de CervantesTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/19/#quoteOfDayWed, 19 Mar 2008 02:14:48 PDTGilbert ChestertonO divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our handshttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/17/#quoteOfDayMon, 17 Mar 2008 21:36:33 PDTSun TzuMethinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should bhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 Mar 2008 21:58:18 PDTVirginia WoolfDespair has its own calms.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 Mar 2008 02:08:35 PDTBram StokerThere are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 15 Mar 2008 00:30:57 PDTBram StokerChange begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Mar 2008 04:34:01 PDTCharles DickensLife is made of ever so many partings welded together.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 Mar 2008 21:21:56 PDTCharles DickensOne man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 Mar 2008 09:55:19 PDTMiguel de CervantesNo man knows he is young while he is young.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/11/#quoteOfDayTue, 11 Mar 2008 00:17:36 PDTGilbert ChestertonEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends can only read the title.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/10/#quoteOfDayMon, 10 Mar 2008 00:18:10 PDTVirginia WoolfDo not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/09/#quoteOfDaySun, 09 Mar 2008 03:05:42 PDTGilbert ChestertonHistory shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts thehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/07/#quoteOfDayFri, 07 Mar 2008 22:22:04 PSTCharles DarwinShe missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much abohttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/07/#quoteOfDayFri, 07 Mar 2008 06:03:41 PSTKate ChopinInstead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, whichhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/06/#quoteOfDayThu, 06 Mar 2008 00:16:05 PSTJonathan SwiftI do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/05/#quoteOfDayWed, 05 Mar 2008 00:31:09 PSTGilbert ChestertonThe fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things insidehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/03/04/#quoteOfDayTue, 04 Mar 2008 02:20:14 PSTGilbert ChestertonFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/03/#quoteOfDayMon, 03 Mar 2008 00:15:51 PSTGilbert Chesterton'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/02/#quoteOfDaySun, 02 Mar 2008 04:54:18 PSTDaniel DefoeEvery traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.http://mohanjith.net/2008/03/01/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Mar 2008 04:33:11 PSTCharles DickensCredit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/29/#quoteOfDayFri, 29 Feb 2008 01:21:45 PSTCharles DickensI must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/27/#quoteOfDayWed, 27 Feb 2008 21:46:21 PSTJonathan SwiftNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/27/#quoteOfDayWed, 27 Feb 2008 00:35:52 PSTCharles DickensA good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 Feb 2008 00:40:03 PSTVirginia WoolfFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/25/#quoteOfDayMon, 25 Feb 2008 01:57:19 PSTJonathan SwiftOur greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/24/#quoteOfDaySun, 24 Feb 2008 00:13:27 PSTMiguel de CervantesWhen envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/23/#quoteOfDaySat, 23 Feb 2008 00:01:30 PSTSun TzuWe forge the chains we wear in life.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/22/#quoteOfDayFri, 22 Feb 2008 02:17:20 PSTCharles DickensThe aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, washttp://mohanjith.net/2008/02/21/#quoteOfDayThu, 21 Feb 2008 01:38:55 PSTCharles DickensVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/20/#quoteOfDayWed, 20 Feb 2008 02:09:07 PSTCharles DickensIt is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistihttp://mohanjith.net/2008/02/19/#quoteOfDayTue, 19 Feb 2008 00:12:56 PSTCharles DickensThe pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/18/#quoteOfDayMon, 18 Feb 2008 01:52:36 PSTCharles DickensI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/17/#quoteOfDaySun, 17 Feb 2008 03:16:40 PSTJonathan SwiftTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/16/#quoteOfDaySat, 16 Feb 2008 00:36:46 PSTVirginia WoolfThe true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 15 Feb 2008 00:26:46 PSTGilbert ChestertonNothing has really happened until it has been recorded.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/13/#quoteOfDayWed, 13 Feb 2008 22:24:19 PSTVirginia WoolfEvery baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 Feb 2008 21:23:17 PSTCharles DickensIn the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injushttp://mohanjith.net/2008/02/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 Feb 2008 03:50:22 PSTCharles DickensOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/11/#quoteOfDayMon, 11 Feb 2008 02:47:13 PSTGilbert ChestertonDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/10/#quoteOfDaySat, 09 Feb 2008 22:19:37 PSTGilbert ChestertonElectric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/09/#quoteOfDaySat, 09 Feb 2008 11:43:14 PSTCharles DickensThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/08/#quoteOfDayFri, 08 Feb 2008 03:54:11 PSTRene DescartesEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 06 Feb 2008 22:34:32 PSTGilbert ChestertonHappiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/06/#quoteOfDayTue, 05 Feb 2008 23:31:27 PSTJonathan SwiftThe soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/05/#quoteOfDayMon, 04 Feb 2008 22:55:20 PSTDaniel DefoeThieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/04/#quoteOfDayMon, 04 Feb 2008 11:50:39 PSTGilbert ChestertonHave a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/03/#quoteOfDaySat, 02 Feb 2008 23:35:24 PSTCharles DickensI ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.http://mohanjith.net/2008/02/01/#quoteOfDayThu, 31 Jan 2008 22:26:43 PSTVirginia WoolfSleep is the best cure for waking troubles.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/30/#quoteOfDayTue, 29 Jan 2008 23:40:47 PSTMiguel de CervantesIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 28 Jan 2008 21:38:44 PSTVirginia WoolfPoetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/27/#quoteOfDaySun, 27 Jan 2008 05:07:42 PSTCharles DickensAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/26/#quoteOfDayFri, 25 Jan 2008 22:51:47 PSTGilbert ChestertonIt is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/24/#quoteOfDayWed, 23 Jan 2008 23:13:35 PSTKate ChopinMay you live every day of your life.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/23/#quoteOfDayWed, 23 Jan 2008 20:59:21 PSTJonathan SwiftI don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/23/#quoteOfDayWed, 23 Jan 2008 01:00:09 PSTVictor HugoAll generalizations are dangerous, even this one.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 Jan 2008 21:56:32 PSTAlexandre DumasIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 Jan 2008 02:21:38 PSTArthur Conan DoyleConservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/20/#quoteOfDaySat, 19 Jan 2008 22:24:59 PSTAmbrose BierceI just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/19/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 Jan 2008 22:26:02 PSTP. G. WodehouseWhat's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/14/#quoteOfDayMon, 14 Jan 2008 21:19:31 PSTAesopDon't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple...Be patient with the poor pehttp://mohanjith.net/2008/01/14/#quoteOfDayMon, 14 Jan 2008 03:51:58 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawPeace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 13 Jan 2008 00:09:44 PSTWilkie CollinsWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 Jan 2008 13:08:55 PSTPlatoA woman must have money and a room of her own.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/11/#quoteOfDayFri, 11 Jan 2008 01:12:39 PSTVirginia WoolfAh, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/10/#quoteOfDayWed, 09 Jan 2008 21:59:20 PSTFriedrich NietzscheIt only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/09/#quoteOfDayTue, 08 Jan 2008 21:58:19 PSTLucy Maud MontgomeryAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/08/#quoteOfDayMon, 07 Jan 2008 23:04:46 PSTHonore de BalzacIt is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/06/#quoteOfDaySun, 06 Jan 2008 20:00:57 PSTAristotleHow is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/05/#quoteOfDaySat, 05 Jan 2008 00:51:44 PSTAlexandre DumasMothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 Jan 2008 23:31:53 PSTJohn F. KennedyWhen dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 Jan 2008 00:31:05 PSTVictor HugoIf you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.http://mohanjith.net/2008/01/02/#quoteOfDayWed, 02 Jan 2008 10:57:50 PSTRene DescartesFor a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, andhttp://mohanjith.net/2008/01/01/#quoteOfDayMon, 31 Dec 2007 23:55:07 PSTMiguel de CervantesIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/31/#quoteOfDaySun, 30 Dec 2007 23:42:31 PSTRene DescartesI saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/28/#quoteOfDayThu, 27 Dec 2007 21:20:11 PSTStephen CraneIn the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of shttp://mohanjith.net/2007/12/27/#quoteOfDayWed, 26 Dec 2007 21:21:55 PSTCharles DarwinThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 25 Dec 2007 22:00:00 PSTGustave FlaubertNo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humour.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/25/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 Dec 2007 22:31:30 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThere is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:52 PSTOscar WildeBefore all else, be armed.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/23/#quoteOfDaySat, 22 Dec 2007 21:55:59 PSTNiccolo MachiavelliTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/22/#quoteOfDaySat, 22 Dec 2007 00:23:38 PSTMark TwainIt is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/21/#quoteOfDayThu, 20 Dec 2007 21:24:16 PSTJerome K. JeromeDying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/20/#quoteOfDayWed, 19 Dec 2007 23:39:32 PSTW. Somerset MaughamAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/19/#quoteOfDayTue, 18 Dec 2007 22:18:14 PSTGeorge EliotThe hero is brave in deeds as well as words.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/18/#quoteOfDayTue, 18 Dec 2007 01:43:39 PSTAesopIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/17/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 Dec 2007 21:20:36 PSTFrederick DouglassImagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imaginationhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/12/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 Dec 2007 00:35:43 PSTL. Frank Baum"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Dec 2007 23:06:41 PSTLewis CarrollTo love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Dec 2007 00:43:33 PSTPlatoDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/13/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 Dec 2007 23:21:09 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonIt was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 11 Dec 2007 23:28:43 PSTJane AustenThe tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/11/#quoteOfDayMon, 10 Dec 2007 22:20:00 PSTWilliam ShakespeareWithout labor nothing prospers.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/10/#quoteOfDaySun, 09 Dec 2007 21:33:24 PSTSophoclesIf I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/09/#quoteOfDaySat, 08 Dec 2007 22:22:39 PSTE. M. ForsterMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/08/#quoteOfDayFri, 07 Dec 2007 21:55:42 PSTFyodor DostoyevskyI don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save onhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/12/06/#quoteOfDayWed, 05 Dec 2007 22:37:25 PSTAgatha ChristieThe gods too are fond of a joke.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/05/#quoteOfDayTue, 04 Dec 2007 21:24:23 PSTAristotleI like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly thathttp://mohanjith.net/2007/12/04/#quoteOfDayMon, 03 Dec 2007 22:07:28 PSTAgatha ChristieReflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/03/#quoteOfDaySun, 02 Dec 2007 22:20:58 PSTCharles DickensThe truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/02/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Dec 2007 23:03:19 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawSuccess is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.http://mohanjith.net/2007/12/01/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Dec 2007 05:41:59 PSTBooker T. WashingtonLove seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quartehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/11/30/#quoteOfDayFri, 30 Nov 2007 00:34:50 PSTMark TwainThere are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/29/#quoteOfDayThu, 29 Nov 2007 01:29:39 PSTAmbrose BierceI always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/28/#quoteOfDayTue, 27 Nov 2007 21:59:56 PSTRudyard KiplingOur ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/27/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Nov 2007 22:40:23 PSTGustave FlaubertModesty is the conscience of the body.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/26/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Nov 2007 00:03:09 PSTHonore de BalzacMan's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/23/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 Nov 2007 22:35:16 PSTEdgar Allan PoeSlavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neihttp://mohanjith.net/2007/11/22/#quoteOfDayWed, 21 Nov 2007 23:22:22 PSTJames Fenimore CooperWe have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into thttp://mohanjith.net/2007/11/21/#quoteOfDayTue, 20 Nov 2007 23:18:21 PSTMark TwainAbsence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/20/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Nov 2007 23:41:52 PSTWilliam ShakespeareYou send a boy to school in order to make friends--the right sort.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/19/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Nov 2007 21:28:14 PSTVirginia WoolfDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of governmenhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/11/18/#quoteOfDaySat, 17 Nov 2007 21:11:46 PSTAristotleModeration is a fatal thing... Nothing succeeds like excess.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/17/#quoteOfDaySat, 17 Nov 2007 01:18:21 PSTOscar WildeIt is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Nov 2007 04:23:41 PSTJoseph ConradMary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/14/#quoteOfDayTue, 13 Nov 2007 21:41:11 PSTSir Walter ScottWe must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/13/#quoteOfDayTue, 13 Nov 2007 01:22:12 PSTJohn F. KennedyIf we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/12/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Nov 2007 22:24:29 PSTFrancis BaconA well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/11/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Nov 2007 03:19:17 PSTJames MadisonCunning often outwits itself.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Nov 2007 21:57:50 PSTAesopI do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/07/#quoteOfDayTue, 06 Nov 2007 21:06:55 PSTMary ShelleyWho steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my goodhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/11/06/#quoteOfDayMon, 05 Nov 2007 23:31:35 PSTWilliam ShakespeareHappy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.http://mohanjith.net/2007/11/01/#quoteOfDayWed, 31 Oct 2007 21:15:24 PDTAesopThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/31/#quoteOfDayTue, 30 Oct 2007 22:11:58 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweA classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never hehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/10/30/#quoteOfDayMon, 29 Oct 2007 21:56:02 PDTEdith WhartonStriving to better, oft we mar what's well.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/29/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Oct 2007 21:58:58 PDTWilliam ShakespeareCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/28/#quoteOfDaySat, 27 Oct 2007 21:39:10 PDTMark TwainIt is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to behttp://mohanjith.net/2007/10/27/#quoteOfDayFri, 26 Oct 2007 22:13:57 PDTMary ShelleyIt's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/26/#quoteOfDayThu, 25 Oct 2007 23:41:55 PDTLewis CarrollOne and God make a majority.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/25/#quoteOfDayWed, 24 Oct 2007 21:20:50 PDTFrederick DouglassAlcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/23/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Oct 2007 21:21:57 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawAdvertising is legalized lying.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/22/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Oct 2007 00:18:00 PDTH.G. WellsSome folk want their luck buttered.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/21/#quoteOfDaySun, 21 Oct 2007 02:34:35 PDTThomas HardyDancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/20/#quoteOfDaySat, 20 Oct 2007 07:36:21 PDTHenry FieldingWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/18/#quoteOfDayWed, 17 Oct 2007 22:18:25 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeIn the twilight, it was a vision of power.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/17/#quoteOfDayWed, 17 Oct 2007 00:08:59 PDTUpton SinclairTowering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/16/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Oct 2007 21:59:47 PDTAbraham LincolnPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/15/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Oct 2007 21:17:49 PDTEdgar Allan PoeNobody minds having what is too good for them.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Oct 2007 00:34:28 PDTJane AustenAll life is an experiment.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/13/#quoteOfDayFri, 12 Oct 2007 22:23:06 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonTruth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/12/#quoteOfDayThu, 11 Oct 2007 23:56:50 PDTFrancis BaconIt is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy.... It is in our follies that we are one.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 10 Oct 2007 21:19:14 PDTJerome K. JeromeWe call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/10/#quoteOfDayTue, 09 Oct 2007 23:18:44 PDTAnna SewellIt is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 07 Oct 2007 23:48:58 PDTOscar WildeMost people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 06 Oct 2007 22:42:58 PDTOscar WildeEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/06/#quoteOfDaySat, 06 Oct 2007 02:25:39 PDTGilbert ChestertonNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Oct 2007 02:18:01 PDTBertrand RussellI detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/04/#quoteOfDayThu, 04 Oct 2007 03:26:53 PDTHomerIndividuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rightshttp://mohanjith.net/2007/10/03/#quoteOfDayTue, 02 Oct 2007 22:41:58 PDTJames Fenimore CooperBut I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.http://mohanjith.net/2007/10/02/#quoteOfDayMon, 01 Oct 2007 21:21:36 PDTStephen CraneSomething of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corrhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/10/01/#quoteOfDaySun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:31 PDTCharlotte BronteBut the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/30/#quoteOfDaySat, 29 Sep 2007 21:49:34 PDTKate ChopinArt consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/29/#quoteOfDayFri, 28 Sep 2007 21:53:16 PDTGilbert ChestertonAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/28/#quoteOfDayThu, 27 Sep 2007 21:31:33 PDTEdgar Allan PoeStrategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/27/#quoteOfDayWed, 26 Sep 2007 21:41:27 PDTSun TzuEnemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 25 Sep 2007 23:11:28 PDTSophoclesA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/25/#quoteOfDayMon, 24 Sep 2007 22:57:51 PDTRalph Waldo EmersonIt isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/24/#quoteOfDaySun, 23 Sep 2007 23:37:40 PDTGilbert ChestertonThere are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/23/#quoteOfDaySat, 22 Sep 2007 22:35:52 PDTFyodor DostoyevskyWhen it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/22/#quoteOfDayFri, 21 Sep 2007 23:10:16 PDTRene DescartesIt's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/21/#quoteOfDayThu, 20 Sep 2007 22:33:32 PDTLewis CarrollThe artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/20/#quoteOfDayWed, 19 Sep 2007 22:22:41 PDTW. Somerset MaughamWealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makeshttp://mohanjith.net/2007/09/19/#quoteOfDayTue, 18 Sep 2007 21:55:33 PDTDaniel DefoeEvery political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/18/#quoteOfDayMon, 17 Sep 2007 21:48:57 PDTMary ShelleyLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/17/#quoteOfDaySun, 16 Sep 2007 21:29:12 PDTSir Walter ScottHonesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/16/#quoteOfDaySat, 15 Sep 2007 22:34:29 PDTPlatoWe are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Sep 2007 21:01:47 PDTJohn F. KennedyNo enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 14 Sep 2007 03:18:02 PDTNiccolo MachiavelliAll the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/13/#quoteOfDayWed, 12 Sep 2007 21:11:58 PDTVictor HugoShe had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/12/#quoteOfDayTue, 11 Sep 2007 21:18:54 PDTHenry JamesA woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/10/#quoteOfDaySun, 09 Sep 2007 22:06:03 PDTWashington IrvingDeath is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/09/#quoteOfDaySat, 08 Sep 2007 22:04:59 PDTFrancis BaconA thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/08/#quoteOfDaySat, 08 Sep 2007 00:38:08 PDTGustave FlaubertThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/07/#quoteOfDayThu, 06 Sep 2007 21:22:40 PDTJames Fenimore CooperThe rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/06/#quoteOfDayWed, 05 Sep 2007 21:50:06 PDTLewis CarrollMankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/05/#quoteOfDayTue, 04 Sep 2007 21:19:55 PDTJohn F. KennedyRead in order to live.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/04/#quoteOfDayMon, 03 Sep 2007 22:31:46 PDTHenry FieldingFrom the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animalhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/09/03/#quoteOfDaySun, 02 Sep 2007 22:10:56 PDTCharles DarwinI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too carefulhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/09/02/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Sep 2007 23:29:26 PDTOscar WildeHappiness depends upon ourselves.http://mohanjith.net/2007/09/01/#quoteOfDaySat, 01 Sep 2007 00:49:27 PDTAristotleUnion gives strength.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/31/#quoteOfDayFri, 31 Aug 2007 01:48:18 PDTAesopYou can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/29/#quoteOfDayTue, 28 Aug 2007 21:14:47 PDTJack LondonA client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/28/#quoteOfDayMon, 27 Aug 2007 22:12:25 PDTArthur Conan DoyleCourage is a kind of salvation.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/27/#quoteOfDayMon, 27 Aug 2007 00:12:04 PDTPlatoKnowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 25 Aug 2007 22:30:09 PDTPlatoEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/25/#quoteOfDayFri, 24 Aug 2007 23:07:41 PDTRene DescartesThey do not love that do not show their love.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/23/#quoteOfDayWed, 22 Aug 2007 21:03:04 PDTWilliam ShakespeareBetween men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 21 Aug 2007 21:34:41 PDTOscar WildeCuriouser and curiouser!http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/21/#quoteOfDayMon, 20 Aug 2007 21:27:31 PDTLewis CarrollPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/20/#quoteOfDaySun, 19 Aug 2007 22:25:35 PDTAlexandre DumasThe liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead whohttp://mohanjith.net/2007/08/19/#quoteOfDaySat, 18 Aug 2007 22:40:53 PDTOscar WildeWealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; ‘Tis impudence and money makehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/08/18/#quoteOfDayFri, 17 Aug 2007 21:57:53 PDTDaniel DefoeIf there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing uphttp://mohanjith.net/2007/08/17/#quoteOfDayThu, 16 Aug 2007 22:46:21 PDTFrederick DouglassI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/16/#quoteOfDayWed, 15 Aug 2007 21:18:43 PDTEmily BronteWomen speak two languages - one of which is verbal.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/15/#quoteOfDayTue, 14 Aug 2007 23:09:04 PDTWilliam ShakespeareIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/14/#quoteOfDayTue, 14 Aug 2007 06:12:16 PDTHenry JamesA woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 12 Aug 2007 22:33:59 PDTFriedrich NietzscheTrue originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/12/#quoteOfDaySun, 12 Aug 2007 00:46:12 PDTEdith WhartonMan is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough haphttp://mohanjith.net/2007/08/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 11 Aug 2007 00:38:30 PDTFyodor DostoyevskyAnger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 09 Aug 2007 22:19:34 PDTGeorge EliotHaving levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/09/#quoteOfDayThu, 09 Aug 2007 00:37:47 PDTEmily BronteWhen one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in thehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/08/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 08 Aug 2007 00:47:59 PDTFriedrich NietzscheThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/07/#quoteOfDayMon, 06 Aug 2007 23:33:26 PDTEdgar Allan PoeA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/06/#quoteOfDaySun, 05 Aug 2007 22:15:37 PDTCharles DarwinAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/05/#quoteOfDaySat, 04 Aug 2007 21:47:09 PDTGilbert ChestertonThe good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/04/#quoteOfDayFri, 03 Aug 2007 22:57:05 PDTSun TzuThe stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 02 Aug 2007 22:00:07 PDTWilla CatherSince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/02/#quoteOfDayWed, 01 Aug 2007 23:22:40 PDTNicolo MachiavelliAn egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.http://mohanjith.net/2007/08/01/#quoteOfDayTue, 31 Jul 2007 21:23:07 PDTAmbrose BierceAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/31/#quoteOfDayMon, 30 Jul 2007 23:31:08 PDTW. Somerset MaughamI always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/30/#quoteOfDaySun, 29 Jul 2007 22:27:59 PDTOscar WildeShe had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/29/#quoteOfDaySun, 29 Jul 2007 00:48:56 PDTLouisa May AlcottSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/28/#quoteOfDayFri, 27 Jul 2007 22:00:45 PDTSir Walter ScottThings that are not at all, are never lost.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/27/#quoteOfDayThu, 26 Jul 2007 22:37:18 PDTChristopher MarloweThere are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one--keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/26/#quoteOfDayWed, 25 Jul 2007 22:30:21 PDTMark TwainNever waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/25/#quoteOfDayTue, 24 Jul 2007 22:41:19 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawIt is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 23 Jul 2007 21:25:00 PDTAbraham LincolnHow much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/07/23/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Jul 2007 23:17:48 PDTEdith WhartonNo man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may behttp://mohanjith.net/2007/07/22/#quoteOfDaySat, 21 Jul 2007 22:02:42 PDTNathaniel HawthorneRegrets are the natural property of grey hairs.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/21/#quoteOfDayFri, 20 Jul 2007 21:45:40 PDTCharles DickensI like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/20/#quoteOfDayThu, 19 Jul 2007 23:26:51 PDTJerome K. JeromeThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/19/#quoteOfDayWed, 18 Jul 2007 21:02:35 PDTP. G. WodehouseMe Tarzan, you Jane.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/18/#quoteOfDayTue, 17 Jul 2007 23:32:51 PDTEdgar Rice BurroughsTime ripens all things; no man is born wise.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/17/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Jul 2007 21:11:07 PDTMiguel de CervantesIf there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 15 Jul 2007 21:48:28 PDTJane AustenIt is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 14 Jul 2007 21:40:48 PDTOscar WildeI cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feedinhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/07/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Jul 2007 23:09:42 PDTCharles DarwinMen create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/13/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Jul 2007 13:29:20 PDTAristotleAssuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Jul 2007 21:17:58 PDTJohn MiltonA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Jul 2007 00:44:30 PDTHonore de BalzacI heard the little bird say so.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/10/#quoteOfDayMon, 09 Jul 2007 22:33:23 PDTJonathan SwiftDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be ahttp://mohanjith.net/2007/07/09/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Jul 2007 23:32:12 PDTAristotlePerfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/08/#quoteOfDaySat, 07 Jul 2007 22:29:23 PDTW. Somerset MaughamIt is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our ahttp://mohanjith.net/2007/07/07/#quoteOfDayFri, 06 Jul 2007 22:06:33 PDTSun TzuProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.http://mohanjith.net/2007/07/06/#quoteOfDayThu, 05 Jul 2007 22:36:38 PDTEmily BronteKindness effects more than severity.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/28/#quoteOfDayWed, 27 Jun 2007 21:35:36 PDTAesopLiberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/27/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 Jun 2007 21:40:14 PDTJohn F. KennedyHave regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Thhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/06/26/#quoteOfDayMon, 25 Jun 2007 22:40:59 PDTLouisa May AlcottI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/25/#quoteOfDayMon, 25 Jun 2007 01:51:20 PDTE. M. ForsterThere are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/24/#quoteOfDaySat, 23 Jun 2007 22:35:35 PDTOscar WildeEvery woman knows all about everything.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/23/#quoteOfDaySat, 23 Jun 2007 00:17:00 PDTRudyard KiplingExperience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvementhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/06/22/#quoteOfDayThu, 21 Jun 2007 21:23:18 PDTAlexander HamiltonOur own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/21/#quoteOfDayWed, 20 Jun 2007 21:44:59 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeI say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/20/#quoteOfDayWed, 20 Jun 2007 02:06:48 PDTMiguel de CervantesA faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 18 Jun 2007 23:35:29 PDTVictor HugoHe was a wise man who invented beer.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/18/#quoteOfDaySun, 17 Jun 2007 22:23:52 PDTPlatoAnd so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/17/#quoteOfDaySat, 16 Jun 2007 21:52:18 PDTGustave FlaubertReason is God's crowning gift to man.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/16/#quoteOfDayFri, 15 Jun 2007 23:58:17 PDTSophoclesTrain up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/15/#quoteOfDayFri, 15 Jun 2007 05:34:14 PDTCharles DickensThe true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/14/#quoteOfDayWed, 13 Jun 2007 21:11:50 PDTEdgar Allan PoeThere are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/13/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 Jun 2007 22:26:05 PDTEdith Wharton"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/12/#quoteOfDayMon, 11 Jun 2007 22:21:03 PDTLewis CarrollThere is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/11/#quoteOfDaySun, 10 Jun 2007 22:12:24 PDTFyodor DostoyevskyBetter to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/10/#quoteOfDaySun, 10 Jun 2007 00:14:34 PDTJohn MiltonAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/09/#quoteOfDayFri, 08 Jun 2007 22:40:51 PDTWalter ScottThere are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/08/#quoteOfDayFri, 08 Jun 2007 02:46:47 PDTWilla Cather"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 06 Jun 2007 23:02:10 PDTLewis CarrollAdventure is not outside man; it is within.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/06/#quoteOfDayTue, 05 Jun 2007 23:39:03 PDTGeorge EliotI do know of these that therefore only are reputed wise for saying nothing.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/05/#quoteOfDayMon, 04 Jun 2007 21:14:29 PDTWilliam ShakespeareIt is easy to kick a man that is down.http://mohanjith.net/2007/06/01/#quoteOfDayThu, 31 May 2007 21:18:40 PDTAesopChildren are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/31/#quoteOfDayWed, 30 May 2007 21:38:31 PDTAesopHateful to me as are the gates of hell, is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, utters another.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/30/#quoteOfDayTue, 29 May 2007 22:25:45 PDTHomerI've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/29/#quoteOfDayTue, 29 May 2007 01:28:21 PDTHenry JamesCommon sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to shttp://mohanjith.net/2007/05/28/#quoteOfDaySun, 27 May 2007 21:58:00 PDTRene DescartesQuick decisions are unsafe decisions.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/27/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 May 2007 22:54:26 PDTSophoclesI am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/26/#quoteOfDaySat, 26 May 2007 05:21:18 PDTLouisa May AlcottBe brief, for no discourse can please when too long.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/25/#quoteOfDayFri, 25 May 2007 00:23:20 PDTMiguel de CervantesAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/24/#quoteOfDayWed, 23 May 2007 21:14:56 PDTJohn Quincy AdamsA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/23/#quoteOfDayTue, 22 May 2007 21:21:04 PDTFrancis BaconI specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/22/#quoteOfDayMon, 21 May 2007 22:15:45 PDTAgatha ChristieBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/21/#quoteOfDaySun, 20 May 2007 21:11:54 PDTAmbrose BierceBetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/20/#quoteOfDaySat, 19 May 2007 23:27:43 PDTAbraham LincolnIt is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/19/#quoteOfDayFri, 18 May 2007 22:31:37 PDTJerome K. JeromeA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/18/#quoteOfDayThu, 17 May 2007 21:26:56 PDTGilbert ChestertonA father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. Buhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/05/17/#quoteOfDayWed, 16 May 2007 21:54:04 PDTWashington IrvingCommon-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/16/#quoteOfDayTue, 15 May 2007 22:43:13 PDTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/15/#quoteOfDayMon, 14 May 2007 21:08:06 PDTHerbert N. CassonIf no one consumes these products, people will stop producing them. They will not build it if you don't come.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 13 May 2007 22:06:01 PDTBill ClintonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/13/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 May 2007 23:42:00 PDTRobert Louis StevensonThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 12 May 2007 02:01:03 PDTOscar WildeWhen kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we hahttp://mohanjith.net/2007/05/11/#quoteOfDayThu, 10 May 2007 22:16:41 PDTWilla CatherShe wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/10/#quoteOfDayWed, 09 May 2007 23:55:49 PDTKate ChopinNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/09/#quoteOfDayTue, 08 May 2007 22:12:50 PDTBooker T. WashingtonWisdom outweighs any wealth.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/08/#quoteOfDayMon, 07 May 2007 21:39:18 PDTSophoclesOur life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are stihttp://mohanjith.net/2007/05/07/#quoteOfDaySun, 06 May 2007 22:29:00 PDTE. M. ForsterEducation is the best provision for the journey to old age.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/06/#quoteOfDaySat, 05 May 2007 22:43:55 PDTAristotleIt is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness whehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/05/05/#quoteOfDayFri, 04 May 2007 21:26:11 PDTAristotleThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/04/#quoteOfDayFri, 04 May 2007 01:11:22 PDTOscar WildeThat is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.http://mohanjith.net/2007/05/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 03 May 2007 01:20:01 PDTWilla CatherThe least outlay is not always the greatest gain.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/29/#quoteOfDaySat, 28 Apr 2007 21:30:07 PDTAesopTime and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/28/#quoteOfDaySat, 28 Apr 2007 01:19:20 PDTAesopAll men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/27/#quoteOfDayThu, 26 Apr 2007 22:30:17 PDTJohn Quincy AdamsGive me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/26/#quoteOfDayThu, 26 Apr 2007 00:11:10 PDTJohn MiltonThe crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/25/#quoteOfDayWed, 25 Apr 2007 01:10:14 PDTE. M. ForsterThe heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 23 Apr 2007 22:39:36 PDTWilla CatherThe seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck buthttp://mohanjith.net/2007/04/23/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Apr 2007 22:40:53 PDTGeorge Bernard ShawReligion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/22/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Apr 2007 00:10:24 PDTNathaniel HawthorneI charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/21/#quoteOfDayFri, 20 Apr 2007 22:22:15 PDTWilliam ShakespeareThe rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/20/#quoteOfDayFri, 20 Apr 2007 09:14:22 PDTKarl Marx & Frederick EngelsI am enchanted, believe me, To die, thus, In this mediaeval fashion, According to the best legends;http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/19/#quoteOfDayWed, 18 Apr 2007 21:53:38 PDTStephen CraneAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my thttp://mohanjith.net/2007/04/18/#quoteOfDayTue, 17 Apr 2007 22:04:51 PDTBertrand RussellBlessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/17/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Apr 2007 21:14:09 PDTGeorge EliotIt has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is morehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/04/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 15 Apr 2007 22:38:46 PDTAlexander HamiltonThe power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 14 Apr 2007 21:22:45 PDTJonathan SwiftThe easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/14/#quoteOfDayFri, 13 Apr 2007 23:28:27 PDTWashington IrvingYou can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanginhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/04/13/#quoteOfDayThu, 12 Apr 2007 21:44:46 PDTO HenryA good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Apr 2007 23:41:16 PDTEmily BronteLook back, and smile on perils past.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Apr 2007 01:01:33 PDTWalter ScottThe soul is healed by being with children.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/10/#quoteOfDayMon, 09 Apr 2007 21:49:14 PDTFyodor DostoyevskyGod is a geometrician.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/09/#quoteOfDayMon, 09 Apr 2007 02:12:24 PDTPlatoThe heart is forever inexperienced.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Apr 2007 00:36:10 PDTHenry David ThoreauAs a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/07/#quoteOfDayFri, 06 Apr 2007 23:51:46 PDTLucy Maud MontgomeryIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/06/#quoteOfDayThu, 05 Apr 2007 22:23:25 PDTCharles DarwinIt is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/05/#quoteOfDayWed, 04 Apr 2007 23:19:24 PDTP. G. WodehouseBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/04/#quoteOfDayTue, 03 Apr 2007 21:58:25 PDTJoseph ConradAbility is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.http://mohanjith.net/2007/04/03/#quoteOfDayTue, 03 Apr 2007 01:56:40 PDTAmbrose BierceLove is like the measles; we all have to go through it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/30/#quoteOfDayThu, 29 Mar 2007 23:23:06 PDTJerome K. JeromeGreat is advertisement! 'Tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame. Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great. And to be really great ahttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/29/#quoteOfDayThu, 29 Mar 2007 01:28:57 PDTRichard le GallienneThere are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/28/#quoteOfDayTue, 27 Mar 2007 23:11:28 PDTJohn F. KennedyCourage is knowing what not to fear.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/27/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Mar 2007 21:47:36 PDTPlatoThere is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but whehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/26/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Mar 2007 23:26:21 PDTNicolo MachiavelliMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/25/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Mar 2007 01:15:33 PDTHonore de BalzacEven when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave manhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/24/#quoteOfDayFri, 23 Mar 2007 22:18:10 PDTHomerI love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/23/#quoteOfDayFri, 23 Mar 2007 00:28:55 PDTGustave FlaubertPessimism...is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/22/#quoteOfDayWed, 21 Mar 2007 22:29:21 PDTThomas HardyIt is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/21/#quoteOfDayTue, 20 Mar 2007 21:44:04 PDTHomerWith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we arehttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/20/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Mar 2007 21:17:06 PDTAbraham LincolnIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to controlhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/19/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Mar 2007 21:02:16 PDTAlexander HamiltonAn archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/18/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Mar 2007 04:37:02 PDTAgatha ChristieIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/17/#quoteOfDayFri, 16 Mar 2007 22:48:13 PDTJames MadisonHow strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a cliphttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/16/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Mar 2007 23:01:27 PDTOscar WildeThose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/15/#quoteOfDayWed, 14 Mar 2007 22:10:57 PDTAbraham LincolnArrange whatever pieces come your way.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/14/#quoteOfDayTue, 13 Mar 2007 21:25:27 PDTVirginia WoolfA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/13/#quoteOfDayTue, 13 Mar 2007 01:17:55 PDTCharles DarwinIn New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/12/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Mar 2007 22:01:12 PDTCharlotte Perkins GilmanEvery hero becomes a bore at last.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 10 Mar 2007 23:38:25 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonThere is no love sincerer than the love of food.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/10/#quoteOfDayFri, 09 Mar 2007 21:28:35 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/09/#quoteOfDayThu, 08 Mar 2007 22:02:48 PSTAristotleThe excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and othttp://mohanjith.net/2007/03/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Mar 2007 21:00:21 PSTThomas HardyEvery man I meet is in some way my superior.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/07/#quoteOfDayTue, 06 Mar 2007 21:51:08 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/06/#quoteOfDayMon, 05 Mar 2007 22:47:56 PSTRobert Louis StevensonBetter starve free than be a fat slave.http://mohanjith.net/2007/03/02/#quoteOfDayThu, 01 Mar 2007 21:15:18 PSTAesopThere is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/28/#quoteOfDayTue, 27 Feb 2007 22:26:35 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonKnowledge is true opinion.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/27/#quoteOfDayMon, 26 Feb 2007 22:17:13 PSTPlatoCome what come may, Time and the hour run through the roughest day.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/26/#quoteOfDaySun, 25 Feb 2007 22:47:07 PSTWilliam ShakespeareJustice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/25/#quoteOfDaySat, 24 Feb 2007 23:13:56 PSTDaniel DefoeKnowledge is power.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/24/#quoteOfDaySat, 24 Feb 2007 07:25:33 PSTFrancis BaconTake this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - You are not wrong who deem, That my days have been a dream; Yet ifhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/02/23/#quoteOfDayThu, 22 Feb 2007 22:18:37 PSTEdgar Allan PoeI believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses ofhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/02/22/#quoteOfDayWed, 21 Feb 2007 21:33:59 PSTE. M. ForsterThanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising ashttp://mohanjith.net/2007/02/21/#quoteOfDayTue, 20 Feb 2007 21:41:35 PSTHenry JamesAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/20/#quoteOfDayMon, 19 Feb 2007 21:23:29 PSTAbraham LincolnAbuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/19/#quoteOfDaySun, 18 Feb 2007 21:56:56 PSTJohn Quincy AdamsIdeas are fatal to caste.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/18/#quoteOfDaySat, 17 Feb 2007 22:49:34 PSTE. M. ForsterIt's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/17/#quoteOfDayFri, 16 Feb 2007 21:16:24 PSTW. Somerset MaughamHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/16/#quoteOfDayThu, 15 Feb 2007 21:22:15 PSTH.G. WellsOne often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/15/#quoteOfDayWed, 14 Feb 2007 22:03:32 PSTFriedrich NietzscheTell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/14/#quoteOfDayTue, 13 Feb 2007 22:03:56 PSTMiguel de CervantesItaly, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/13/#quoteOfDayMon, 12 Feb 2007 21:12:33 PSTBertrand RussellGoodness is beauty in the best estate.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/12/#quoteOfDaySun, 11 Feb 2007 21:25:42 PSTChristopher MarloweHearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 10 Feb 2007 23:34:56 PSTL. Frank BaumEvery man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/10/#quoteOfDayFri, 09 Feb 2007 23:53:11 PSTHans Christian AndersenBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/09/#quoteOfDayThu, 08 Feb 2007 22:16:40 PSTGustave FlaubertI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcomhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/02/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 07 Feb 2007 22:32:57 PSTBooker T. WashingtonI am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter?http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/07/#quoteOfDayTue, 06 Feb 2007 21:27:50 PSTBertrand RussellAs it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own originahttp://mohanjith.net/2007/02/06/#quoteOfDayMon, 05 Feb 2007 21:05:29 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/05/#quoteOfDaySun, 04 Feb 2007 22:20:52 PSTJohn Quincy AdamsWhen you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, fohttp://mohanjith.net/2007/02/04/#quoteOfDaySat, 03 Feb 2007 21:56:39 PSTHarriet Beecher StoweIt is wise to turn circumstances to good account.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/02/#quoteOfDayThu, 01 Feb 2007 21:50:52 PSTAesopExample is more powerful than precept.http://mohanjith.net/2007/02/01/#quoteOfDayWed, 31 Jan 2007 21:48:47 PSTAesopThe dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/31/#quoteOfDayTue, 30 Jan 2007 21:34:24 PSTWilla CatherHe was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/30/#quoteOfDayMon, 29 Jan 2007 21:43:56 PSTOscar WildeThere is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/29/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Jan 2007 21:40:47 PSTP. G. WodehouseWhen marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/28/#quoteOfDaySun, 28 Jan 2007 07:06:38 PSTFriedrich NietzscheThe best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/27/#quoteOfDaySat, 27 Jan 2007 01:00:41 PSTAgatha ChristieIn order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/26/#quoteOfDayThu, 25 Jan 2007 21:02:11 PSTMiguel de CervantesNothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/25/#quoteOfDayWed, 24 Jan 2007 21:27:55 PSTMary ShelleyI avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/24/#quoteOfDayWed, 24 Jan 2007 01:27:17 PSTCharlotte BronteFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/01/23/#quoteOfDayMon, 22 Jan 2007 23:22:13 PSTCharles DarwinAdversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/22/#quoteOfDaySun, 21 Jan 2007 23:21:13 PSTHenry FieldingTemptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/21/#quoteOfDaySat, 20 Jan 2007 23:33:21 PSTWilliam ShakespeareFear is the mother of foresight.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/20/#quoteOfDayFri, 19 Jan 2007 21:43:07 PSTThomas HardyTo be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/19/#quoteOfDayThu, 18 Jan 2007 22:02:04 PSTJane AustenWar on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/18/#quoteOfDayWed, 17 Jan 2007 21:32:50 PSTLeo TolstoyAmerica is another name for opportunity.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/17/#quoteOfDayTue, 16 Jan 2007 21:56:27 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonMisfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/16/#quoteOfDayMon, 15 Jan 2007 21:55:36 PSTAesopTurn up the lights - I don't want to go home in the dark.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/14/#quoteOfDaySun, 14 Jan 2007 00:21:25 PSTO HenryIf you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect youhttp://mohanjith.net/2007/01/13/#quoteOfDaySat, 13 Jan 2007 01:08:43 PSTFyodor DostoyevskyFor what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/12/#quoteOfDayThu, 11 Jan 2007 21:11:23 PSTJane AustenCourtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/11/#quoteOfDayWed, 10 Jan 2007 21:21:48 PSTLewis CarrollIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/09/#quoteOfDayTue, 09 Jan 2007 00:13:44 PSTJohn F. KennedyHe was white and shaken, like a dry martini.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 07 Jan 2007 21:34:18 PSTP. G. WodehouseThe misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting thttp://mohanjith.net/2007/01/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 06 Jan 2007 23:25:24 PSTVictor HugoExuberance is beauty.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/06/#quoteOfDayFri, 05 Jan 2007 22:39:41 PSTH.G. WellsA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/05/#quoteOfDayThu, 04 Jan 2007 21:43:45 PSTMark TwainThe secret of getting ahead is getting started.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/04/#quoteOfDayWed, 03 Jan 2007 21:34:17 PSTAgatha ChristieDestroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/02/#quoteOfDayMon, 01 Jan 2007 21:09:36 PSTAesopBe content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.http://mohanjith.net/2007/01/01/#quoteOfDaySun, 31 Dec 2006 22:22:20 PSTAesopSir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you wilhttp://mohanjith.net/2006/12/31/#quoteOfDaySat, 30 Dec 2006 22:28:46 PSTHenry FieldingIgnorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/30/#quoteOfDaySat, 30 Dec 2006 11:19:54 PSTWilliam ShakespeareMy plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/29/#quoteOfDayFri, 29 Dec 2006 04:04:00 PSTBill ClintonKnowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/28/#quoteOfDayThu, 28 Dec 2006 03:41:22 PSTPlatoA woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/27/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 Dec 2006 21:24:05 PSTThomas HardyThe strong and the weak cannot keep company.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/26/#quoteOfDayTue, 26 Dec 2006 20:31:05 PSTAesopWhen a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/24/#quoteOfDaySat, 23 Dec 2006 22:41:46 PSTSophoclesHappiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/22/#quoteOfDayFri, 22 Dec 2006 01:29:34 PSTAmbrose BierceNonsense and beauty have close connections.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/21/#quoteOfDayWed, 20 Dec 2006 21:18:28 PSTE. M. ForsterThe whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/19/#quoteOfDayMon, 18 Dec 2006 21:42:36 PSTGilbert ChestertonEternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/18/#quoteOfDaySun, 17 Dec 2006 21:40:33 PSTCharlotte Perkins GilmanThe superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/17/#quoteOfDaySat, 16 Dec 2006 22:13:53 PSTJohn MiltonThe youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged mhttp://mohanjith.net/2006/12/15/#quoteOfDayThu, 14 Dec 2006 21:12:50 PSTHenry David ThoreauLove is a great beautifier.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/14/#quoteOfDayWed, 13 Dec 2006 21:30:20 PSTLouisa May AlcottSentence first, verdict afterwards.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/13/#quoteOfDayTue, 12 Dec 2006 22:12:28 PSTLewis CarrollTravel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity ahttp://mohanjith.net/2006/12/12/#quoteOfDayMon, 11 Dec 2006 21:06:42 PSTMark TwainBoredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/11/#quoteOfDaySun, 10 Dec 2006 21:20:27 PSTBertrand RussellA man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of hhttp://mohanjith.net/2006/12/10/#quoteOfDaySun, 10 Dec 2006 04:30:40 PSTArthur Conan DoyleWhen the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/09/#quoteOfDaySat, 09 Dec 2006 08:10:31 PSTOscar WildeYou see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/08/#quoteOfDayThu, 07 Dec 2006 21:32:25 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawGod is truth and light his shadow.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/07/#quoteOfDayWed, 06 Dec 2006 23:54:31 PSTPlatoIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/06/#quoteOfDayWed, 06 Dec 2006 20:32:45 PSTAristotleBehind every great fortune there is a crime.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/05/#quoteOfDayTue, 05 Dec 2006 03:02:24 PSTHonore de BalzacDemocracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/04/#quoteOfDayMon, 04 Dec 2006 03:50:42 PSTGeorge Bernard ShawA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/03/#quoteOfDaySun, 03 Dec 2006 01:59:02 PSTNathaniel HawthorneBoth in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/02/#quoteOfDaySat, 02 Dec 2006 07:36:53 PSTBertrand RussellThe most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.http://mohanjith.net/2006/12/01/#quoteOfDayThu, 30 Nov 2006 23:02:34 PSTSamuel Taylor ColeridgeA well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/30/#quoteOfDayWed, 29 Nov 2006 22:14:35 PSTAlexander HamiltonWe are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/29/#quoteOfDayTue, 28 Nov 2006 21:29:52 PSTE. M. ForsterNo man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/28/#quoteOfDayTue, 28 Nov 2006 01:09:20 PSTAbraham LincolnGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/27/#quoteOfDaySun, 26 Nov 2006 21:45:22 PSTRudyard KiplingThe strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/26/#quoteOfDaySun, 26 Nov 2006 01:27:52 PSTGeorge EliotMusic with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/25/#quoteOfDaySat, 25 Nov 2006 07:59:59 PSTGilbert ChestertonIn America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/24/#quoteOfDayFri, 24 Nov 2006 03:19:27 PSTOscar WildeIf we don't end war, war will end us.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/23/#quoteOfDayWed, 22 Nov 2006 23:37:51 PSTH.G. WellsTo fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/22/#quoteOfDayTue, 21 Nov 2006 21:44:47 PSTSun TzuIf I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/17/#quoteOfDayThu, 16 Nov 2006 22:02:34 PSTAbraham LincolnI saw a man pursuing the horizon;http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/16/#quoteOfDayThu, 16 Nov 2006 08:08:42 PSTStephen CraneThere is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/15/#quoteOfDayTue, 14 Nov 2006 22:03:35 PSTFyodor DostoyevskyAll war is deception.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/14/#quoteOfDayMon, 13 Nov 2006 22:42:54 PSTSun TzuSuch democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of prohttp://mohanjith.net/2006/11/13/#quoteOfDaySun, 12 Nov 2006 22:34:45 PSTJames MadisonVision is the art of seeing things invisible.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/12/#quoteOfDaySat, 11 Nov 2006 22:00:57 PSTJonathan SwiftAll truth is profound.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/11/#quoteOfDaySat, 11 Nov 2006 07:51:08 PSTHerman MelvilleI love fools experiments. I am always making them.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/10/#quoteOfDayThu, 09 Nov 2006 21:58:39 PSTCharles DarwinVirtue is the fount whence honour springs.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/09/#quoteOfDayWed, 08 Nov 2006 22:16:06 PSTChristopher MarloweThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/08/#quoteOfDayWed, 08 Nov 2006 04:40:23 PSTBertrand RussellA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/07/#quoteOfDayMon, 06 Nov 2006 22:22:03 PSTHenry FieldingThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/06/#quoteOfDaySun, 05 Nov 2006 22:59:58 PSTGustave FlaubertAmbition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/05/#quoteOfDaySun, 05 Nov 2006 01:11:42 PSTRalph Waldo EmersonIt is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/03/#quoteOfDayThu, 02 Nov 2006 21:10:28 PSTW. Somerset MaughamA man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.http://mohanjith.net/2006/11/02/#quoteOfDayWed, 01 Nov 2006 21:07:21 PSTVictor HugoThus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights ahttp://mohanjith.net/2006/11/01/#quoteOfDayTue, 31 Oct 2006 21:09:46 PSTSun TzuA peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/31/#quoteOfDayMon, 30 Oct 2006 22:08:08 PSTWilliam ShakespeareIt is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/30/#quoteOfDayMon, 30 Oct 2006 00:14:50 PSTHerman MelvilleAs a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/29/#quoteOfDaySun, 29 Oct 2006 08:15:53 PSTVirginia WoolfActing is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/28/#quoteOfDayFri, 27 Oct 2006 23:25:26 PDTGeorge EliotA man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/27/#quoteOfDayThu, 26 Oct 2006 22:25:49 PDTStephen CraneIt is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/26/#quoteOfDayWed, 25 Oct 2006 21:48:18 PDTW. Somerset MaughamLife is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/25/#quoteOfDayTue, 24 Oct 2006 22:30:47 PDTCharlotte BronteThe last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/24/#quoteOfDayMon, 23 Oct 2006 21:59:19 PDTJoseph ConradI will praise any man that will praise me.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/23/#quoteOfDaySun, 22 Oct 2006 22:13:34 PDTWilliam ShakespeareTo know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/20/#quoteOfDayThu, 19 Oct 2006 21:49:40 PDTHerman MelvilleI believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong inhttp://mohanjith.net/2006/10/19/#quoteOfDayWed, 18 Oct 2006 22:46:22 PDTBill ClintonIt is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/18/#quoteOfDayTue, 17 Oct 2006 22:02:54 PDTChristopher MarloweMan will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/17/#quoteOfDayMon, 16 Oct 2006 23:06:50 PDTMark TwainI suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than whttp://mohanjith.net/2006/10/16/#quoteOfDaySun, 15 Oct 2006 21:27:43 PDTE. M. ForsterMinds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/15/#quoteOfDaySat, 14 Oct 2006 23:14:01 PDTCharles DickensWe must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of hishttp://mohanjith.net/2006/10/14/#quoteOfDaySat, 14 Oct 2006 08:41:45 PDTCharles DarwinWe have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/13/#quoteOfDayThu, 12 Oct 2006 22:25:14 PDTJonathan SwiftSo dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/12/#quoteOfDayWed, 11 Oct 2006 21:50:09 PDTJohn MiltonMost mothers are instinctive philosophers.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/11/#quoteOfDayTue, 10 Oct 2006 21:36:27 PDTHarriet Beecher StoweOur happiness depends on wisdom all the way.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/10/#quoteOfDayMon, 09 Oct 2006 22:12:38 PDTSophoclesOf men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/09/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Oct 2006 21:55:52 PDTHomerThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/08/#quoteOfDaySun, 08 Oct 2006 01:40:49 PDTAristotleBeauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?http://mohanjith.net/2006/10/07/#quoteOfDaySat, 07 Oct 2006 12:34:05 PDTGeorge Bernard Shaw