Saturday, November 29, 2008

Quotable quotes.

I found this book presented to Shireen by Harjot(who is not with us anymore) and decided to put it on net.It seemed irrelevent after the recnt happenings but I decided to go ahead with it . It goes Alphabetically.
ADMIRATION is a very short - lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison
ADVICE is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, the deeper it sinks into mind. S.T.Coleridge
ANGER is warmth which lights itself. An African Saying.
ANXIETY is rust of life destroying its brightness and weakening its power.A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive remedy.
APOLOGY is only egotism wrong side out- Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings, is from his apology. O.W.Holmes
APPLAUSE is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim for weak ones. Charles Caleb Colton
ATHIESM is rather in life than in the heart of man. Francis Bacon
AVARICE, in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road as we approach to our journey's end. M.T.Cicero

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