Chanakya Quotes - Must read

April 11, 2008 at 2:03 pm | In Quotes | No Comments

“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”

“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”

“The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, what the results might be and will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”

“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

“Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.”

“Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.”

“God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.”

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”

“Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.”

“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

Cool Definations

April 11, 2008 at 1:44 pm | In Cools Stuff, Quotes | 2 Comments

1. Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test.

2.Marriage: It’s an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master

3. Divorce: Future tense of marriage

4. Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.

5. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through “the minds of either”.

6.Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

7. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

8. Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power. ..

9. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.

10. Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

11. Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.

12. Classic: books which people praise, but do not read.

13. Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

14. Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

15. Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

16. Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

17. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

18. Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

19. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

20. Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

21. Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

22. Opportunist: A person who sta rts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

23. Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway “See I am not injured yet.”

24. Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.

25. Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

26. Father: A banker provided by nature.

27. Criminal: A guy no different from the rest… Except that he got caught.

28. Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

29. Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after?

30. Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.

If you love someone NEW VERSIONS

April 10, 2008 at 2:36 pm | In Quotes | No Comments

ORIGINAL QUOTE

If you love someone,
Set him free… If he comes back, he’s yours, If he doesn’t, he never was….

THE NEW VERSIONS…..

Pessimist
If you love someone,
Set him free… If he ever comes back, he’s yours, If he doesn’t, as expected, he never was.

Optimist
If you love someone,
Set him free… Don’t worry, he will come back.

Suspicious
If you love someone,
Set him free… If he ever comes back, ask him why.

Impatient
If you love someone,
Set him free… If he doesn’t come back within some time forget him.

Patient
If you love someone,
Set him free… If he doesn’t come back, continue to wait. until he comes back…

Playful
If you love someone,
Set him free… *If he comes back, and if you love him still, set him free again, repeat*

Animal-Rights Activist
If you love someone,
Set him free, In fact, all living creatures deserve to be free!!

Lawyers
If you love someone,
Set him free, Clause 1a of Paragraph 13a-1 in the Second Amendment of the Matrimonial Freedom Act clearly states that…

Bill Gates
If you love someone,
Set him free, If he comes back, I think we can charge him for re-installation fees but tell him that he’s also going to get an upgrade.

Biologist
If you love someone,
Set him free, He’ll evolve.

b
If you love someone,
Set him free, If he loves you, the probability of him coming back is high If he doesn’t, your relation was improbable anyway.

Over possessive person
If you love someone,
don’t set him free.

HR specialist
If you love someone,
set him free by offering him VRS and other benefits. Then outsource him!!!

CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM. - you might learn something

April 10, 2008 at 1:55 pm | In Cools Stuff, On the Ground.That's me, Quotes, Thoughts, Writing by Me | 1 Comment

THE FOLLOWING IS A CHINESE GOOD LUCK TANTRA TOTEM.
You may not believe in this but the advice is great!
Read all the way down, you might learn something!!!

ONE.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO.
Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE.
Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR.
When you say, “I love you”, mean it.

FIVE.
When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.

SIX.
Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN.
Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT.
Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.

NINE.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.

TEN.
In disagreements, fight fairly. Please No name calling.

ELEVEN.
Don’t judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE.
Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN.
When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to
know?”

FOURTEEN.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN.
Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

SEVENTEEN.
Remember the three R’s:
Respect for self;
Respect for others;
Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN.
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY.
Smile when picking up the phone.
The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY ONE.
Spend some time alone.

Some Good Old Sayings

April 9, 2008 at 5:13 am | In Quotes | No Comments

Some Good Old Sayings

Really Nice…..

* There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else, my salary isn’t sufficient!!

* I try to go the extra mile at work, but my boss always finds me and brings me back.

* They can’t fire me, slaves have to be sold.

* Home is where the television is.

* Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.

* Death is hereditary.

* Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.

* Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

* When you’re right, no one remembers. When you’re wrong, no one forgets.

* Experience is what a comb gives you after you lose your hair.

* Well done is better than well said.

* Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking.

* Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.

* You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

* I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

* If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

* Pessimist: A person that looks both ways when crossing a one way street.

* The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an approaching train.

* Where there’s a will there are five hundred relatives.

* I have a drinking problem - I can’t afford it.

* Everyone should have a spouse, because there are a number of things that go Wrong that one can’t blame on the government.

* There are three sides to every argument: your side, my side and the right side.

* An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound Confusing.

And finally

* Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Grandparents

March 25, 2008 at 5:32 am | In Quotes | No Comments

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just “antique” little girls. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown

Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~ Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever. ~Author Unknown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith

It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that’s why the world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown

Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old. ~Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley

Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice. ~Author Unknown

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one. ~Author Unknown

If your baby is “beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time,” you’re the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~Author Unknown

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say that grandparents are God’s gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby

Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

The truth about failure

March 21, 2008 at 5:24 am | In Humors, Quotes, Thoughts | No Comments

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… …it does mean you haven’t
succeeded yet.

Failure doesn’t mean you have accomplished nothing… …it does mean you
have learned something.

Failure doesn’t mean you have been a fool… …it does mean you had a lot
of faith.

Failure doesn’t mean you have been disgraced… …it does mean you were
willing to try.

Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it… …it does mean you have to do
something in a different way.

Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior… …it does mean you are not
perfect.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life… …it does mean you’ve a
reason to start afresh.

Failure doesn’t mean you should give up… …it does mean you should try
harder.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it… …it does mean it will take a
little longer.

Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you… …it does mean God has a
better idea!

21 Things to remember

March 21, 2008 at 5:23 am | In Humors, Quotes, Thoughts | No Comments

21 Things To Remember

1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.

2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.

3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.

4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.

5. Success stops when you do.

6. When your ship comes in…. make sure you are willing to unload it.

7. You will never have it all together.

8. Life is a journey…not a destination. Enjoy the trip!

9. The biggest lie on the planet When I get what I want I will be happy.

10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.

11. I’ve learned that ultimately , ‘takers’ lose and ‘givers’ win.

12. Life’s precious moments don’t have value, unless they are shared.

13. If you don’t start, it’s certain you won’t arrive.

14. We often fear the thing we want the most.

15. He or she who laughs……lasts.

16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.

17. Look for opportunities…not guarantees.

18. Life is what’s coming….not what was.

19. Success is getting up one more time.

20. Now is the most interesting time of all.

Principles of life

March 21, 2008 at 5:21 am | In Humors, Quotes | 1 Comment

* Winning isn’t everything. But wanting to win is.

* You would achieve more, if you don’t mind who gets the credit.

* When everything else is lost, the future stillremains.

* Don’t fight too much. Or the enemy would know your art of war .

* The only job you start at the top is when you dig a grave.

* If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for everything.

* If you do little things well, you’ll do big ones better.

* Only thing that comes to you without effort is old age.

* You won’t get a second chance to make the first impression .

* Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.

* Never take a problem to your boss unless you have a solution.

* If you are not failing you’re not taking enough risks.

* Don’t try to get rid of bad temper by losing it.

* If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

* Those who don’t make mistakes usually don’t make anything

* There are two kinds of failures. Those who think and never do, and those who do and never think.

* Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

* All progress has resulted from unpopular decisions.

* Change your thoughts and you change your world.

* Understanding proves intelligence, not the speed of the learning.

* There are two kinds of fools in this world. Those who give advise and those who don’t take it.

* The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting.

* Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.

* Friendship founded on business is always better than business founded on friendship.

Funny One Liners & Quotes

March 15, 2008 at 1:48 pm | In On the Ground.That's me, Quotes, Writing by Me | No Comments

1.. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.

2.. I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

3.. Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them.

4.. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.

5.. Don’t take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.

6.. You’re just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

7.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

8.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

9.. I’m not a complete idiot — Some parts are just missing.

10..Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

11. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.

12..God must love stupid people; He made so many.

13..The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

14..Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.

15..Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

16..Being “over the hill” is much better than being under it!

17..Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up.

18..Procrastinate Now!

19..I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?

20..A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

21..A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

22..Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!

23..They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.

24..He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.

25..A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.

26..Ham and eggs. A day’s work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

27..The trouble with life is there’s no background music.

28..The original point and click inter face was a Smith & Wesson.

29..I smile because I don’t know what the hell is going on.

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