Jaisanthini World

LONELINESS: People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. -Anton Checkov I was lonesomer than Crusoe's goat. O.Henry Loneliness...is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. -Thomas Wolfe

LIFE: It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die. -St. Bernard Life's a long headache in a noisy street. -John Masefield Life is just one damn thing after another. -attributed to Frank Ward O' Malley There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -Santaayana Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. -Shakespeare: King John Don't try to live forever. You will not succeed -G.B.Shaw. Nothing that lasts too long is very agreeable, not even life. -Vauvenargues

LEISURE: The goal of war is peace; of business, leisure. -Aristole The advantage of leisure is mainly that we may have the power of choosing our own work, but not certainly that it confers any privilege of idleness. -John Lubbock

LAZINESS: Easy street is a blind alley. -Wilson Mizner Lazy people are always wanting to do something. -Vauvenargues

KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon All that we know is, nothing can be known. -Byron The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. -Bernard De Voto All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. -T.S.Eliot Knowledge is the antidote to fear. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

KINDNESS: Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. -Henry Burton Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. -Cervantes I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that  I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. -Etienne De Grellet To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson Not always action show the man: we fine Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. -Alexander Pope: Moral Essays Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. -Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. -Oscar Wilde The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

JUSTICE: Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. -Pascal The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments of plague us. -Shakespeare: King Lear

JOY: Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, Bidding adieu. -Keats: Ode on Melancholy The most evident token and apparent sign  of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. -Montaigne Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. -Psalms 30:5

JOURNALISM: Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. -James Bennett Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. -Samuel Bowles Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. -Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. -Napoleon Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. -G.B.Shaw Get your facts first, and then you can distort'em as much as your please. -Mark Twain The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. -Oscar Wilde.

JEST: And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. -Francis Bacon Thou cannot not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. -Benjamin Franklin It is better to lose a new jest than an old friend. -Gabriel Harvey Play with me and hurt me not. -Gabriel Harvey: Marginalia Jesters do not often prove prophets. -Shakespeare: King Lear

JEALOUSY: Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. -De Puisieyx There is more self-love than love in jealousy. -La Rochefoucld O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. -Schiller O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. -Shakespeare: Othello They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are jealous. -Shakespeare :Othello

IGNORANCE: Ignorance gives one a large range of possibilities. -George Eliot There are many things of which a wise man may wish to be ignorant. -Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. -Goethe Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance. -Ben Johnson A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. -Charles Kettering The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. -Cesare Lombroso A food uttereth all his mind. -Proverbs 29:11 There is no sin except stupidity. -Oscar Wilde

IDLENESS: Idleness, the badge of gentry. -Robert burton I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. -Hugo Grotius Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. -Thomas haliburton As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. -Samuel Johnson Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. -La Rochefoucauld

IDEALIST: When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter. -Logan Pearsall Smith

IDEA: Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only one we have. -Alain charlier Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow -T.S.Eliot:The Hollow men No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. -Victor Hugo An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. -William James That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that a wrong one. -Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. -Donald Marquis Little words never hurt a big idea. -Howard Newton

HEROISM: Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more. -George Kennan There are heroes in evil as well as in good. -La Rochefoucauld Whoever excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes. -Jonathan  Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa

HATE: Short is the road that leads from fear to hate. -Giambattista Casti Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. -Charles Dickens Hate is gained through good deeds as well as bad ones. -Machiavelli We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. -Tacitus People hate, as they love, unreasonably. -W.M.Thackeray

HAPPINESS: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves; this conviction the blind have. -Victor Hugo We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. -La Rochefoucauld The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. -Karl Marx Happiness and Beauty are by-products. -G.B.Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -G.B.Shaw Happiness is no laughing matter. -Richard Whately

GRATITUDE: Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation: you do not find it among gross people. -Samuel Johnson Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favours. -La Rochefoucauld He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. -Seneca

GOSSIP: Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously. -Elbert Hubbard It's merry when gossips meet. -Ben Jonson What some invent the rest enlarge. -Jonathan Swift There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. -Oscar Wilde